Rivers
State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has accused the leaders of the All
Progressives Congress in Rivers State of planning to bomb him while travelling
in a plane.
Wike
explained that the target was for the state APC to get rid of him in its
desperate bid to unseat the Peoples Democratic Party-led government in the
state.
Maintaining
that no one had the ability to destroy what God had blessed, the governor added
that the opposition party in the state was not happy that he was paying
workers’ salaries and pensions to retirees despite the economic recession.
Wike,
who spoke on Thursday at a thanksgiving service organised by the state PDP in
Port Harcourt, criticised those calling for bloodshed in the state for selfish
reasons.
The
governor said blood would continue to flow in their families.
He
explained that God would continue to grant him victory no matter how hard the
APC leaders in the state planned to eliminate him.
“They
said they will blow the plane that I will board. You are plotting, do you know
whether God will blow your own plane before that time?” the governor said,
adding that the state was under constant assault by the leaders of the
opposition party.
Reacting,
the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Chris Finebone, said the
allegation by Wike underscored the extent the governor had become frightened by
his (Wike) own shadow and past iniquities.
Finebone
added that Wike’s utterances at the PDP event in Port Harcourt on Thursday was
symptomatic of someone caught committing a crime and decided to pour dirt on
anyone in sight.
“Governor
Wike’s accusation that the APC is planning to bomb his plane simply underscores
the extent the governor has become hysterically frightened of his own shadows
and his past iniquities.
“It
is quite unfortunate that Governor Wike has become helpless in dealing with the
outcome of his past actions, but constantly suffering psychological relapses.
“However,
it is unfortunate that for want of credible defence of the many serious
accusations against him, Governor Wike is resorting to raising wild accusations
against the APC.
“Nigerians
now have a proof of the person that prides himself in threatening to kill
people and definitely the person is not of the APC,” Finebone added.
But
describing Rivers as a peaceful state, Wike stressed that the APC was planning
to cause crisis in order to create a wrong impression.
Observing
a minute silence for those who were killed during the December 10, 2016
legislative rerun election in the state, the governor maintained that the APC
used security operatives to kill and intimidate those who insisted that there
would be no rigging.
Source:Punch
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