'WIKE IS SPENDING HIS LAST DAYS IN OFFICE'- APC

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) has said Chief Nyesom Wike of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was spending his last
days in office as Governor of Rivers State.
The party was reacting to the statement credited to
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh,
who was quoted to be talking about the failure of PDP
and INEC counsels to appear before the Rivers State
Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Friday,
September 18: Metuh said, “Even if our lawyers and
witnesses didn’t appear at the Rivers Tribunal today
and the remaining days, it doesn’t stop us PDP from
winning at the judgment. But should we fail at
judgment, we shall win even above 1.5 million votes in
Rivers State re-run Governorship and other elections.”
Rivers APC in a statement issued Monday in Port
Harcourt and made available by its Chairman, Dr.
Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, dismissed Metuh’s position as
mere day-dreaming.
The party said: “While we do not wish to comment on
the likely outcome of the current sitting of the Rivers
Guber Election Tribunal since the case is sub judice,
we find Chief Metuh’s position laughable because the
evidence before the tribunal indicates that Chief Wike is
spending his final days in office as Rivers State
Governor. Just like PDP, we as a political party are
equally eagerly looking forward to a re-run of the
Rivers State governorship election. Contrary to the
empty boast of Metuh that PDP shall win even above
1.5 million votes in the envisaged re-run elections, we
make bold to tell him that PDP died in Rivers State the
day former Governor Chibuike Amaechi in November
2013 led all those who mattered in the party to join the
APC and take a front seat in the vanguard for Nigeria’s
political emancipation. We are convinced that our
candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, shall win the
expected re-run guber polls with a landslide as he has
the full support of the good people of Rivers State.”
According to the statement, Rivers APC sympathizes
with Chief Metuh in his difficult new role as an
unprepared spokesman of the opposition, telling him to
prepare for a big shock as Wike can never be elected by
the Rivers State people in ”any free and fair election
devoid of violence, killing and rigging as Rivers people
do not only know him but also know what he stands
for.
“Instead of dreaming of winning the envisaged re-run
election, we expect him (Wike) to explain to the world
how he intends to defend the over 100 Rivers people
that were murdered to install him as Care-Taker
Governor of Rivers State by greedy INEC REC, Dame
Gesila Khana, and other corrupt INEC officials who
cannot defend their immoral and illegal actions of 1.5
million acclaimed voters is bigger than 273,000
accredited voters in the Register.
“To us, the Biblical book of Hosea Chapter Eight Verse
Seven, ‘For They Have sown the Wind and Shall Reap
the Whirlwind’ captures the inescapable fate of Chief
Wike and his collaborators. They have no one else to
blame but themselves, for they have sown the wind and
shall reap the whirlwind.”