PORT HARCOURT, Federal Republic of Nigeria. Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has alerted Nigerians that the All Progressives Congress Chairman in Rivers State has written a letter to the Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, and the Army High Command, directing that prominent PDP leaders and members be arrested on the eve of the March 19 rerun legislative elections in the state.
Addressing thousands of PDP members at Luuwa in Khana local council during the 50th birthday of Senator Lee Maeba yesterday, Wike said he intercepted the letter by the Rivers APC chairman to the security agencies.
The governor reiterated that the people of the state would resist any attempt to use the security forces to rig the rerun elections. According to him, no matter the level of intimidation and arrests of PDP members by the security forces, PDP will win the legislative polls.
His words: “We will support INEC to conduct free and fair elections, but nobody who rigs the election will go free.” He charged the Ogoni to vote all PDP candidates during the rerun so that the development process of his administration would be enhanced.
Wike urged the people of Rivers South-East to vote for Senator Olaka Nwogu, who would defend their interest at the National Assembly. According to him, Mr. Magnus Abe who now moves around with soldiers and policemen to intimidate the ordinary people, will only go to the National Assembly to work against them, hence the people should vote against him. He announced the takeover of the Primary Health Centre in the area by the state government as a birthday gift to Senator Maeba.
In his remarks, Senator Maeba assured Wike that the Ogoni people would always support his administration and the PDP. The governor was accompanied to Maeba’s birthday celebration by Deputy National Chairman of PDP, Uche Secondus; former Rivers State governor, Celestine Umehia; former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Austin Opara; former minister of Sports, Dr Tammy Danagogo, PDP Chieftain, Chief Sergeant Awuse and Sole Administrator, Greater Port Harcourt Development Authority, Ambassador Desmond Akawor.
Credit: National Mirror (Nigeria)
