There has been a handfull of tantrums and threats passing between the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Nwike and the incumbent Governor of Rivers State, Governor Rotimi Amaechi, a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Wike has assured his supporters of the victory of the party in the Saturday’s governorship election.
Wike, who spoke on the occasion of Easter/PDP victory rally in Port Harcourt also boasted that APC cannot win the forthcoming election.
While urging his supporters not to lose sleep over the governorship election Wike said: “Let them (APC) be in charge of the Army, Navy or anything, they cannot win this election. If (Governor Chibuike) Amaechi likes, let him bring Secretary General of the United Nations (Ban Ki moon) or (Attahiru Jega,) the chairman of INEC to conduct the election, APC will fail again on Saturday.”
He warned that, if APC rigs the governorship election on April 11, “they will rig their lives”, alleging that the state government was scheming to shift the election until when the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, has been sworn into office.
“They don’t want election to be conducted until Buhari is sworn in. It will not work. We must hold election in Rivers State,” he insisted.
The PDP governorship candidate, while urging members of the APC to refrain from being used by the ruling government to stage a protest on the streets of Port Harcourt and sealing off the INEC office, said he would not hesitate to “mobilise the sponsors of such protest out of Port Harcourt.”
The present Deputy Governor of the State, Engineer Tele Ikuru, disclosed that he spent the past seven years and nine months advising the state government against embarking on certain projects that would not impact positively on Rivers people, but was ignored.
“All the projects I advised them not to prosecute have failed with some of them hanging,” he said.
He said that after carefully studying the manifestoes of both PDP and that of APC, he came to the conclusion that the former had a better and people-oriented blueprint of social contract with the Rivers people.
Meanwhile, the Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has appealed to the party’s supporters not to be intimidated by the Governor Amaechi, adding that the power to win the election rested with the masses, who voted massively for President Jonathan last Saturday.
Earlier, the State PDP chairman, Felix Obuah, expressed delight that Rivers people were able to prove their support last Saturday, as they voted overwhelmingly for President Jonathan.
He accused Governor Amaechi of allegedly diverting the state’s funds to pursue his private political agenda to the detriment of civil servants whose salaries have not been paid for months now.
