We’ll unseat Wike at tribunal— APC

THE All Progressives Congress in
Rivers State has said that despite
the assumption of office of
Governor Nyesom Wike, it was
confident that he would be
removed by the election petition
tribunal.
Wike won on the platform of the
Peoples Democratic Party during
the April 2015 elections.
The state chairman of the APC, Dr.
Davies Ikanya, in a statement made
available to SUNDAY PUNCH on
Saturday, said Wike was unjustly
declared the winner by the
Independent National Electoral
Commission.
He advised the governor not to
embark on any long term project,
adding that he (Wike) has a short
time to stay in office.
The state APC chairman also
advised the governor not to change
the curtains and furniture in the
Government House, because he has
‘a very short time’ to stay in power.
He pointed out that the blood of
APC members spilled during the
elections in the state would never
be in vain.
“Mr. Wike was unjustly declared
winner by the state INEC, which
never hides its connivance with
Rivers PDP.
“He does not have the legitimate
mandate of the good people of
Rivers State to act as their
governor. We remain confident that
the Election Petition Tribunal will
do the needful and sack him
accordingly in view of the materials
submitted to them, in view of the
immorality associated with his
occupation of the Government
House and in view of the outcry of
the people of Rivers State that he
does not have their mandate to
serve as their governor.
“As we wait to reclaim the mandate
of the Rivers State people, which
was wickedly seized by INEC in their
desperation to impose Wike as the
governor of Rivers State, we wish
to state that we will not allow the
blood of our members spilled to be
in vain.
“We owe them and their families
the duty to ensure that a God-
fearing governor in the person of
Dr. Dakuku Peterside is duly
installed in the Government House
based on the mandate of the good
Rivers State people,” Ikanya said in
the statement.
He, however, appealed to the
people of the state to endure
whatever hardship that may come
from Wike’s administration,
pending the restoration of the
mandate they gave to the party’s
candidate.
In a reaction, the state chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief
Felix Obuah, told Sunday PUNCH
that Wike’s victory would stand,
maintaining that the mandate was
given to him by the people.
Obuah, who spoke through his
Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Jerry
Needam, pointed out that the
earlier APC realised that Rivers is a
PDP state, the better for it.
Describing Wike’s victory at the
poll as sacrosanct, he urged the APC
to stop weeping over the last
election.
On the call that Wike should not try
to change the furniture in the
Government House, Obuah
explained that there was no
furniture to change adding that the
Government House had already
been vandalised by the former
governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi and
his cohorts.
“I want to ask; what furniture is the
APC talking about? Former
governors, Peter Odili and
Celestine Omehia, left golden
doors in the office of the governor
but these are all gone. They have
been taken away by Amaechi and
his cohorts.
“They have used APC brooms to
sweep away the property in
Government House, which is now
an eyesore,” Obuah added.
Similarly, Mr. Simeon Nwakaudu,
who is the media aide to Wike,
explained that the APC in the state
should stop sounding as if the
election petitions tribunal
belonged to it.
Nwakaudu, who spoke in a
telephone interview with Sunday
PUNCH, insisted that Wike’s victory
would stand because the mandate
was given to him by the people.
“We are not surprised by the
ranting of the APC in the state. Is
the tribunal their personal
property? They should stop
sounding as if the tribunal is
theirs.”

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