Wike doesn’t have the
mandate to be governor, Rivers APC insists
Chief Nyesom Wike of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who is b
“Chief Wike is being
sworn-in not because he won the April 11 gubernatorial election but simply
because he was unjustly declared Governor-elect 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,” Rivers APC said
in a statement signed by the State Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya.
Dr. Ibiamu in the
statement issued in Port Harcourt advised Chief Wike not to waste his time
planning any long-term project or even trying to change the curtains and
furniture in the Government House as he has a very short time to stay there.
“We remain confident that the Election Petition Tribunal will do the needful
and sack Wike accordingly in view of the materials submitted to them and in
view of the immorality associated his occupation of the Government House in
view of the outcry of the people of Rivers State that he does not have their
mandate to serve as their Governor,” the Rivers APC Chairman said.
He added: “As we wait to
reclaim the mandate of the Rivers State people wickedly seized by INEC in their
desperation to impose Chief Wike as the Governor of Rivers State, we wish to
state that we will not allow the blood of our members spilled in order for
Chief Wike to earn his present status to be in vain as we owe them and their
families the duty to ensure that a God-fearing Governor in the person of Dr
Dakuku Adol Peterside is duly installed in the Government House based on the
mandate of the good Rivers State people.
“Chief Wike’s purported
election is totally against equity, justice and the rotational stance of the
elders and leaders of Rivers State that power should rotate among the upland
and riverine areas of the State as it is totally wicked and out of place for
the upland that has governed the State for 16 years through Dr Peter Odili and
Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi to deny the riverine area of the State a shot at the
Brick House. We will do everything humanly possible and within the ambit of the
law to ensure that this plot to deny the riverine area their right does not see
the light of the day.”
Rivers APC appealed to
the people of Rivers State to endure whatever hardship that may come from the
draconian and misguided regime of Chief Wike pending the restoration of the
mandate they gave to Dr Peterside.
On the threat by Chief
Wike to probe the administration of Governor Amaechi, the party said: “We wish
to reiterate that the account books of the Amaechi administration are clean as
the government was run transparently in the past seven years and seven months
that it presided over the affairs of the State. But should Chief Wike resolve
to probe the administration, the only thing wrong he may observed in Amaechi’s
administration may be the contracts awarded to him (Wike) and his cronies when
he was the Chief of Staff to Governor Amaechi from 2007 to 2011 that were
either abandoned or badly done.”
Rivers APC hailed
Amaechi for finishing strong and wished him higher responsibilities at the
national stage. “Amaechi’s stewardship as Rivers Governor is unmatched in the
history of the State and we are confident that he will similarly distinguish
him well in whatever role our great party and our new President, His Excellency
Muhammadu Buhari may wish to assign to him as he finishes his tour of duty as
Governor today, May 29, 2015,” the party said
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
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