By Nuel Suji – The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has berated the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State of engineering and promoting insecurity as a strategy to scare the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from fixing a date for the long-overdue rerun legislative election in the state.
INEC has made it clear that it will not conduct the election unless peace is guaranteed as it is not prepared to risk the life of its officials and the ad-hoc staff to be used for the exercise.
In a statement signed by Eze Chukwuemeka, media aide to State Chairman of APC, the party specifically accused Governor Nyesom Wike of creating an atmosphere of insecurity in the state in order to delay the bye-election.
“PDP and Wike are aware that they cannot win any election in a peaceful environment, so they have resorted to the promotion of insecurity to ensure that the rerun legislative election in the state is endlessly delayed so that Senator Magnus Abe, Chief Andrew Uchendu, Rt. Hon. Amachree and other APC candidates does not join their colleagues at the National Assembly to give Nigerians purposeful and visionary leadership direction,” Rivers APC said in a statement issued on Wednesday in Port Harcourt.
The party alleged Mr. Wike has made governance in Rivers State “a laughable and comic venture where insecurity is not only promoted, sustained, watered but has become a way of life with murderers and gun wielding youths treated like celebrities.
“A State where outdated criminals are granted amnesty and accorded heroic receptions and treatments all aimed at scaring and intimidating INEC and security organs from performing their statutory roles in the state.
The party also cried out over yet another violent attack on Ogoniland in which four persons reportedly lost their lives.
“Obviously, this act of barbarism is part of Wike and PDP’s strategy of using violence to intimidate INEC to keep postponing the legislative rerun election,” it alleged.
