The All Progressives Congress,
APC, in Rivers State, on Tuesday branded the State Governor, Nyesom Wike a liar
over his claims on cult activities in the state.
Rivers APC said the governor, in
his broadcast “merely compiled names of cult groups opposed to his own gang of
killers, names of his hit-men known to have fallen out with him, then some APC
members and is asking for their arrests.”
Chairman of the party in the
state, Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, who made the remark, claimed that the late
kidnapper and former militant, Don Wani was Wike’s associate.
In a statement, Ikanya said Wike released list of alleged cultists in the state shortly
after Wani was killed in a bid to tamper with investigation of the late
kidnapper, who is his, Wike’s, ally.
Ikanya alleged that Wike was
aware of the fact that the death of Wani will expose their previous illicit
transactions.
The statement reads, “The attention
of the Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has been drawn
to the broadcast by Gov. Nyesom Wike in which all forms of half-truths and
sometimes outright lies were pushed into public space.
“While some of the lies may be
ignored at the moment and dealt with at a later date, however, it is manifestly
important to immediately prevent unsuspecting members of the public, critical
stakeholders and particularly security agencies from being hoodwinked by a
frivolous list of supposed cultists and kidnappers contained in the governor’s
broadcast.
“The truth has come out. Gov.
Wike merely compiled names of cult groups opposed to his own gang of killers,
names of his hit-men known to have fallen out with him, then some APC members
and is asking for their arrests.
“Since the broadcast by Gov.
Wike, many are still asking a plethora of questions. Why did the governor know
those persons as criminals as he claimed and never did anything since he came
into office over 2 years ago? Why did he not make the names of those
individuals available to security agents for arrest, investigation and
prosecution?
“Why were those names kept until
Don Wani was killed before he made them public in less than 48 hours after?
Were those names given to him by security agencies? Indeed, how were those
names generated; where they generated in Government House Port Harcourt or by
the police?
“The bravest attempts to answer
the aforementioned questions simply confirm the fact that Gov. Wike merely want
to muddle up investigations by security agents following the killing of his
associate, Don Wani. The governor very well knows that if Don Wani and his boys
could be tracked and killed in faraway Enugu, then information from his mobile
call logs, text messages, bank accounts, etc. will likely reveal a lot which
may incriminate him or his party leaders who freely played host to and/or
appeared in photographs with Don Wani at various times in the past.
“The APC calls on Rivers people,
Nigerians and security agencies to look beyond the names made up of either
opponents or his boys that have fallen out with him. Security agents should
rely on names independently generated by the various security services over
time and clamp down on them accordingly.
“Again we ask: if Gov. Wike had
names of criminals since he became governor over 2 years ago, why did he have
to wait until Don Wani met his waterloo before he made such names public?”
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