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| Governor Wike, Dr. Peter Odili & PAtience Jonathan |
By
ANAYO ONUKWUGHA
Former
First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan and the Governors of Bayelsa State, Hon.
Seriake Dickson; Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Abia State, Dr. Okez8e
Ikpeazu, today attended a special thanksgiving service organised in Port
Harcourt, by Rivers State Governor, Chief Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, to thank God
for his victory at the Supreme Court.
Also
in attendance at the church service held at Saint Peter’s Anglican Church,
Rumueprikom, Ohio/Akpor local government area of the state, were the deputy
governor of Ebonyi State, Kelechi Igwe; former Rivers State Governor, Dr. Peter
Odili and the embattled acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus.
Speaking
at the service, which was officiated by the Archbishop of the Province of Niger
Delta (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Ignatius Kattey, Wike that he had called
few of his supporters that he was not going to recontest because of the
expected bloodshed that would have followed the election.
The
governor, who praised his legal team, which consist of 21 Senior Advocates of
Nigeria, said, “Blood would have flown if the election was going to hold again.
Many people were being arrested. I would call the security men, asking why they
would say they were going to make sure there won’t be any problem.
“So
I called some people including the Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus that I
was not going to run again. They said why and I explained that if I did, many
people would die.”
“On
the day of the judgment, we were sitting in the parlour when my CSO came to
tell me that I was going to lose, and I would be arrested. I asked him to leave
my house. He said whether there was nothing we could do, I said he should
leave.
“I
pray that my enemy should continue to have permanent high blood pressure. I
wouldn’t pray that God will heal them. My own has come down now, and for sever
months it was high. It is time for their own to rise.”
Insisting
that his administration would not support the efforts of President Muhammadu
Buhari to wage war against corruption in the country, Wike accused the federal
government of fighting a one-sided war against corruption.
He
said, “We would not support the fight against corruption. People took our money
from the state, and we wrote to the police asking them to go and make a
statement, nothing has come out of it.
“We
won’t take anybody to the EFCC because I know what would happen. We know how to
fight our own way. We won’t support that
war against corruption that they are doing.”
Culled
from http://www.leadership.ng
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