The All Progressives Congress ( APC) has raised alarm over alleged renewed politically motivated killings of its party members in Rivers State.
Led by the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Segun Oni, the APC leaders at a press conference held at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja berated the continued spate of politically-motivated killings, intimidation and persecution of APC members in Rivers State under the watch of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The Party leaders also decried an alleged level of impunity in the Rivers State House of Assembly saying despite a December 23, 2015, Court of Appeal ruling upholding the election of an APC member, Victoria Wobo Nyeche, to represent Port Harcourt 1 Constituency of Rivers State and a Certificate of
Return issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) thereafter, the Rivers State House of Assembly has refused to administer Oath-of-Office to her.
Victoria Nyeche, in her remark accused the state judiciary and the State House of Assembly of doing the bidding of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike in his “reign of impunity” in the state.
“The Clerk of the Rivers State House of Assembly refused to swear me in on the orders of the Speaker. According to her, “a Rivers State High Court presided by Justice Adolphus Enebili ordered that I should not be sworn in because there is a matter pending before him. This indeed came to me as a shock as neither my party nor I had been served with any originating processes of the Rivers State High Court nor any purported Order emanating from the Court, She said.
Nyeche also petitioned the Attorney General of the Federation and the National Judicial Commission (NJC) over justice Adolphus Enebili alleged disregard of the Court of Appeal ruling which had ruled for her to be returned as State House of Assembly Member Representing Porth-Harcourt 1 Constituency.
On his part, Davies Ibiamu, the Chairman of APC in Rivers State accused the State Governor, Nyesom Wike of running a parallel country in the State.
He accused the State Governor of running the state with his own trained army adding that the PDP led government in the state is also using the police to witch-hunt and harassed their perceived political enemies in the APC .
“It is very pathetic what is happening in Rivers State now. The PDP Governor in Rivers state seems to be running a country of his own. He does not obey any part of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He gives his own rules, he has his own sets of laws and he does not bother about the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I can give you instances; first and foremost, this is a man that has his own army that is free to kill.This is somebody that has actually threatened anybody that wants to conduct elections in Rivers state to write his will.
” As I am speaking to you now, they have compiled a list of over 100 APC leaders to be arraigned. They will just arrest you, give you a charge and they commit you to prison. That is what is happening right now in Rivers state.
