Even If Amaechi Brings Jega To Rivers, APC Will Lose — Wike

 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, has expressed optimism that he would win Saturday’s election.

 

He told his supporters not to lose sleep over this weekend’s governorship election because “nobody can stop us from winning on Saturday.”

 

Speaking at an Easter celebration/PDP victory rally in Port Harcourt on Monday, Wike said there was no way the All Progressives Congress (APC) would win the governorship election in the state.

 

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“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 said.

 

Wike warned that if APC rigs the governorship election this weekend, “they will rig their lives,” alleging that the Rivers State Government was scheming to shift the election in the state until when the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, has been sworn-in to 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 said.

 

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 of the INEC office, Wike said he would not hesitate to “mobilise the sponsors of such protest out of Port Harcourt.”

 

Also speaking, the Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, urged the party’s supporters not to be intimidated by the governor, adding that the power to win the election rests with the masses who voted massively for Jonathan last Saturday.

 

On his part, the Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Tele Ikuru, disclosed that he spent the past seven years and nine months advising the state government against embarking on projects that would not impact positively on the masses but was ignored.

 

“All the projects I advised them not to prosecute have failed with some of them hanging,” he said.

 

Ikuru said after carefully studying the manifestoes of both the PDP and APC, he came to the conclusion that the PDP had a better and people-oriented blue-print of social contract with the Rivers people.

 

In his welcome address earlier, the Rivers State PDP chairman, Felix Obuah, expressed delight that Rivers people voted overwhelmingly for Jonathan in last Saturday’s presidential election.

 

He accused Amaechi of 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.

 

“Can we forget a governor who stole our money to pursue his personal political agenda and interest over and above the collective interest of our people? History will surely remember Amaechi and his APC government as ones who led the betrayal of our state and South-south region in order to install a party that has no commitment to the issues dear to the hearts of our people,” he said.

 

Meanwhile, the Archbishop of El-Shadai Ministries International, Archbishop Elkanah Hanson, has risen in defence of Wike over allegations that he is a member of Ogboni confraternity.

 

In a public prayer rendered at the ceremony yesterday, Hanson said Wike had never been in any secret cult before, adding that the story of his membership was peddled by the opposition party to discredit him and reduce his chances of winning the election.

 

Hanson also said he heard from “God directly that Wike is the next governor of Rivers State,” adding that such men of God like Apostle Zilly Aggrey of Royal House Grace and Apostle Stephen Akinola of Redemption Ministries among others “led Wike to Christ. He is a born again Christian.”

 

He also expressed optimism that four years of Wike as governor would bring Rivers State at par with Lagos State in terms of development and resource generation.