The ongoing clash between the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, continued on Saturday when the governor described the
party chairman as a man without character.
Wike had in his response accused Oshiomhole of trying to cause trouble in the Niger Delta region with his utterances, adding that the Federal Government should caution him. “First of all, I have never been violent and I will never be violent. However, when you see an armed robber come to your house, will you plead with the armed robber and say please, I beg you, leave my house.
He said, “When Jonathan left office, one of the reasons why I didn’t go to NEC meeting was because of Oshiomhole when he was a member. When Jonathan left, there was no day at the NEC meeting Oshiomhole would not bring Jonathan down.“Meanwhile, this was the same man Oshiomhole went to praise for allowing ‘one man, one vote’. But when the man left, Oshiomhole changed. That is his character.”
He added, “I will not be a member of their party. I have always been a member of PDP and they know that. Oshiomhole knows that his party did not even score up to 25 per cent in my state. He cannot not tell me that.”Meanwhile, the police and other security agencies in Bayelsa State on Saturday sustained their presence at strategic locations within Yenagoa, the state capital, and its environs following the protests that rocked the state on Thursday evening and Friday.
Sequel to the court order in the lead judgment delivered by Justice Ejembi Eko, the commission on Friday declared Senator Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party as the winner of the election, after which he and his deputy, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, were sworn in by the state Chief Judge, Justice Kate Abiri, at the Government House.
Two armoured personnel carriers and three military patrol vans were seen around the Opolo Roundabout on the Isaac Boro Expressway. When asked when the party would approach the apex court, the party’s National Legal Adviser, Babatunde Ogala, said, “You will know when we go to court.” The PDP caucus, in a statement by Mr Kingsley Chinda on Saturday, however, congratulated Diri and called for the prosecution of Oshiomhole and Degi-Eremienyo.
But the National President, Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, Ozobo Austin, has advised the new governor to extend hands of fellowship to every stakeholder in the state.The Senate on Saturday maintained sealed lips over the fate of Senator Degi-Eremieoyo.
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