By Sylvester
Ugwuanyi
Governor
Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has dismissed calls by the opposition All
Progressives Congress, APC, leadership in the state for the probe of killings
witnessed during the last general elections in Rivers, saying it was laughable.
Wike,
who disclosed this in Port Harcourt, the state capital, through his Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity, Sir, Opunabo Inko-Tariah, claimed that the APC
and its leadership were frustrated.
He
insisted that the call for a probe into the killings was laughable considering
the fact that they occurred when an APC government under former Governor,
Chibuike Amaechi was in power.
Inko-Tariah
accused APC State Chairman, Davies Ikanya of indirectly indicting Amaechi of
maladministration and repudiating his constitutional responsibility of
protecting life and property.
The
spokesman urged the state’s APC leadership to give the public details of the
killings during the last general elections since it claimed to have the
records.
According
to him, “I have just been briefed on the bombastic outburst by Davies Ikanya
and his co-travellers in the Rivers State chapter of the APC, deprecating
Governor Wike for not probing the killings in Rivers State during the
elections.
“This
is laughable and inane. Is it a case of selective amnesia? Since Dr Ikanya has
details of the murders associated with the last general election, why not make
them public? In fact, he should be the prime suspect in the alleged murders.
“This
obviates the need for further proof that Ikanya and his cohorts are a bunch of
flustered and rudderless characters who will relentlessly – although
fruitlessly – try to sully the reputation of the governor.
“You
don’t need a probe panel to disclose the identities of the alleged murders and
their victims. After all, the APC was in power and in control of the state’s
machinery. Why then did it not set up a panel? The reason is simple: it shall
indict itself.”
Culled
from www.dailypost.ng
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