APC makes another mind blowing allegation over murder of 30 members
– All Progressives Congress says Governor Nyesom Wike should be held responsible for killings in Rivers state
– Segun Oni reveals that in the last two weeks, over 30 APC members have been killed in different parts of the state
– Wike warned against playing politics with the security situation in the state
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has made another mind blowing allegation against Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state.
Engr. Segun Oni, acting national chairman of the APC says the recent killings in River were politically motivated.
The party in a reaction to the killings of over 30 of its members ahead of the March 19 rerun elections into the National Assembly and state House of Assembly alleged that the recent killings were politically motivated.
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Daily Trust reports that the party’s acting national chairman, Engr. Segun Oni, who spoke with newsmen on March 9, at the party’s national secretariat on the security situation in the oil-rich state ahead of the March 19 rerun elections said Governor Wike, as the chief security officer of the state should be held responsible for the killings.
“Rivers State has been transformed into a killing field, with APC members being murdered on a daily basis. APC members in Rivers State are fast becoming endangered species. On Saturday night, March 5, 2016, masked gunmen first shot dead Franklin Obi, the APC ward chairman in Omoku, headquarters of Ogab/Egbema/Ndoni council and then beheaded him. The gunmen went ahead and killed his wife and 18-year-old son, Bestman. In the last two weeks, over 30 APC members have been killed in different parts of the state,” Oni said.
According to him, the party had earlier drawn the attention of security agencies and other relevant bodies to the alleged threats by the state governor in the buildup to the rerun polls, telling officials of the electoral body to write their wills before coming to conduct the elections.
The party’s acting national chairman disclosed that the party had also reported earlier threat issued by Wike to the state’s civil servants telling them to either support the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or prepare to be relieved of their job.
Engr. Oni said the party’s national working committee (NWC) is of the opinion that the threats are already being executed and urged the police and other security agencies to make the perpetrators of these heinous crimes and their sponsors are arrested and made to face justice.
But Governor Wike has refuted the allegation of the party that the killings were politically motivated. The governor who played host to the new Managing Director of Total E and P Nigerian Limited, Mr Nicholas Terraz, at the government house, Port Harcourt on March 9, said the killings were as a result of “cult-related violence.”
Wike said it is mean for a political party to play politics with the security situation in the state by alleging that victims of cult-related war are its members because of political benefit.
The governor his administration has been supporting the police and the Department of State Services (DSS) to curb the cult-related violence rocking some communities.
“Kidnapping is a national issue. But the reportage on the situation in Rivers State is over-blown. What we have in Rivers State is cult-related violence which the government and security agencies are resolving,” Wike said.
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The acting national chairman during his tribute to late James Ocholi, the minister of state, labour and employment, said the deceased served the party and the country with great love and passion.
This Day reports that Oni after the special session dedicated to the late minister, raised the alarm over the death of a ward chairman, Mr. Franklin Obi, who was recently murdered alongside his wife and son. He reproached the media for not giving sufficient reportage of the attacks “against members of the APC in Rivers and other places.”
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