The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has on Wednesday, December 14, indicted four Governors from the All Progressives Congress, APC, over human rights crimes, that were committed in last Saturday’s Rivers State rerun polls.
The APC Governors are from Bauchi, Benue, Kano, and Plateau States.
Governor Wike, during a State wide broadcast, did not mention his rival, Rotimi Amaechi, but accused the four Governors of contributing one billion naira each, to unleash violence on the people of the State, during the rerun poll.
Wike said that, “the brazen subversion of our democratic rights,” was carefully planned by the APC, which brazenly used Federal might to ensure the return of APC candidates at all cost.
He added, that the State Government had received credible information on the planned electoral theft, and mass violence through security agents, especially two Senior Policemen, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Steven Hasso, and the Commander of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Chief Superintendent of Police, Akin Fakorede.
He said: “If Rivers people could be visited with such a despicably high degree of violence, mayhem, and killings, by some renegade military and SARS operatives with impunity, just to rescue the dying political fortunes of the All Progressives Congress, in a mere Legislative rerun elections, then, we can now begin to imagine what is likely to happen in the State, when the political stakes would be very much higher in 2019.”
“They accused us of raising unnecessary alarms when we cried aloud over their devilish plans to use the federally controlled SARS to disenfranchise our people, and manipulate the rerun election process towards achieving some pre-arranged outcomes against the will of the people.
“Today, we have clearly and eloquently been vindicated. Despite the unprecedented deployment of over 28,000 police personnel, three helicopters, and 20 gun boats for the rerun elections, we all witnessed how Stephen Hasso, Akin Fakorede, and their gang of marauders, took direct and complete control of the election process from INEC, in the Rivers South-East Senatorial District, as well as in Ikwerre, Emouha, and Port Harcourt Local Government Areas, and left unimaginable trails of mayhem, shootings, maiming, and killing of innocent people.
“Indeed, never in our history have Rivers people been so physically, mentally, and psychologically brutalized, traumatized, and denied their rights to freely and fairly elect our leaders, by shameless gangs of hired, power drunk, trigger-happy, and irresponsible security officers, and their political collaborators.
“If Rivers people could be visited with such a despicably high degree of violence, mayhem, and killings by some renegade military and SARS operatives with impunity, just to rescue the dying political fortunes of the All Peoples Congress in a mere Legislative rerun elections, then we can now begin to imagine what is likely to happen in the State, when the political stakes would be very much higher in 2019.
“Nigeria often prides itself as a beacon of democracy, and quickly congratulates other African countries for successful democratic elections, and political transitions.”
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