Chairman of Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Davies Ikanya, has urged Rivers people and Nigerians to ignore the numerous campaigns by Governor Nyesom Wike under the guise of a thanksgiving service to mark his victory at the Supreme Court.
Ikanya urged Nigerians to ask the governor to provide further explanations to his confessions of how he got victory at the Supreme Court recently.
Reacting to Saturday’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) thanksgiving service at the Liberation Stadium, Elekahia, Ikanya urged Wike to address key issues he raised in his confession concerning how he got victory at the apex court after his election had been voided at the lower courts.
“For example, Wike told the world, when he spoke on live television, that he got his victory at the Supreme Court because Dr. Peter Odili, a former governor of the state, directed him on who to meet and what to do. Let Wike also explain to the world who and who Dr. Peter Odili directed him to meet and where the former governor directed him to go to which brought about victory for him (Wike) at the Supreme Court,” Ikanya demanded.
The APC state chairman further wondered the kind of advice Wike would have received from Odili, a medical doctor, which resulted to victory for him at the Supreme Court.
“We know that the matter before the Supreme Court was legal and not medical. How come it was Odili, a medical doctor, who would direct Wike on a purely legal matter? Surely, Nyesom Wike has not disclosed all that happened.
“It has become more curious to most people that Wike openly acknowledged that his Supreme Court victory was a result of the advice he got from Odili, hence, the need for the governor to tell Rivers people and Nigerians, the nature of the advice, especially those the former governor directed him to meet which got him victory at the Supreme Court,” Ikanya reiterated.
Ikanya equally condemned Wike’s attempt to politicise the crisis in Ogoniland for his own political benefit.
“It took the governor more than two weeks to visit ONELGA where over 26 persons were killed with most of the victims’ beheaded and their heads taken away. He has neither spoken nor visited Ahoada East where scores were also horrendously killed and are still being killed.
“At his thanksgiving service, Wike only asked the audience to observe a minute silence for victims of the Bori crisis which he engineered with his war cry that the Ogonis must stop Senator Magnus Abe from returning to the Senate. Were those killed in ONELGA and Ahoada East not Rivers people? It clearly shows that he is behind the Ogoni crisis because of the forthcoming rerun elections,” Ikanya alleged.
Chief Ikanya lamented that killings across Rivers are continuing with nine persons killed across the state on Sunday morning.