* Says Wike Is Too Desperate For Power
Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi yesterday described
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State as too desperate for
power.
He also accused the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC)
Obo Effanga, as unrepentantly a PDP member.
Amaechi, who is also the leader of APC in Rivers State spoke
after voting in his hometown of Ubima in Ikwerre Local Government
Area.
He hailed the military, police and other security agencies for
keeping the peace in Rivers.
Amaechi, a former Rivers governor, said: “The militants have
fled, because of the presence of the military and we are voting
peacefully. One thing about the soldiers is that they are
apolitical. They are neither supporting APC nor AAC or PDP. What
they are doing is to maintain peace and ensure that nobody disrupts
the electoral process.
“Beyond the fact that the REC of INEC in Rivers State recruited
PDP members as ad hoc staff, the process is a bit straight forward.
For instance, in Khana LGA (of Rivers State), the people refused to
vote, because all the ad hoc staff were known members of the PDP
and the electorate said they would not vote.
“Wike does not like the fact that the military is maintaining
peace. Whereas, he stays in Government House with his security and
people are dying on the streets of Port Harcourt. Wike is so
desperate about power. Just yesterday (Friday), PDP thugs killed
two people in my mother’s village.
“The Rivers governor said there was voter apathy because of
soldiers’ presence. There is no time we do not have voter apathy in
Rivers State. What usually happened then was that PDP leaders would
the write results and announce. Now, they do not have the
opportunity to write results.”
The transportation minister also stated that it was noteworthy
that the soldiers were now escorting the result sheets and other
electoral materials to the collation centre, thereby thwarting
Wike’s rigging plan.
However, Wike, after voting in his Rumueprikom-Port Harcourt
polling unit in Obio/Akpor LGA, blamed the security agencies for
the voters apathy during yesterday’s elections, stating that the
voters were afraid to go to their polling units.