A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has said that Governor Nyesom Wike has never won an election under a conducive electoral environment.
He said this is in reaction to Wike’s claim that he defeated his predecessor Rotimi Amaechi in the Rivers election.
Eze, in a statement on Monday, told Wike that the victory of evil over good is always temporary and does not stand the heat of justice.
According to him, evil will be crushed eventually in accordance with the law.
The chieftain said that Wike has been bragging about the declaration of his candidates as winners of the March 18 governorship and assembly elections, “even when the process fell short of standard.”
Eze alleged that “a team of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, ad hoc staff, corrupt officers in the police and other security agencies took bribes in dollars, backed Wike and PDP to work against the people.”
He revealed that it was Amaechi and ex-Governor Peter Odili “that imposed Wike as Chairman of Obio-Akpor Local Government Area against the plea and wishes” of the elders and indigenes.
He noted that the former Minister of Transportation, “in his poor judgement”, got Wike elected as the Chairman of ObioAkpor and further influenced his election as the Chairman of Local Government Councils Chairmen in Nigeria.
Eze said the 2015 election turned Rivers State “into Rivers of blood with hundreds of Rivers people sacrificing their lives because of the sole ambition of a single man.”
He recalled that Wike was sacked by the Tribunal, “but with the help of some powerful individuals in society, some men at the Supreme Court overturned and reinstated him as Governor.”
The statement stated that “Wike connived with powers in Lagos and those in Rivers State to deny APC participation in 2019. So how can he in his right senses claim to have defeated anybody in an election the party wasn’t allowed to participate?”
Eze said the APC adopted the African Action Congress, AAC, governorship candidate, Biokpomabo Awara, three days before the election and while he was leading in “over 17 out of 23 LGAs”, INEC suspended the result announcement.
“That order to suspend, rewrite results and announce Wike winner was given by a powerful force in Aso Rock. That was how Wike managed to return in 2019. The election of 2023 was characterised by rigging, bribing of INEC officials, security agencies, intimidation, killing.”
