Published on February 16, 2016 by pmnews
The Rivers State Chapter
of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the revelations
made by Governor Nyesom Wike about how he won the State Governorship
Election dispute at the Supreme Court as an indictment of the apex
court.
Wike had publicly said during his well-publicised Thanksgiving
Service of 7th February, 2016: “He (referring to former governor, Dr.
Peter Odili) would call me at midnight to tell me what to do. He will
say, ‘go to so, so place’. I took all his advice and here we are today
victorious.”
Rivers APC said in a statement signed by its Chairman,
Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, and issued Tuesday in Port Harcourt that
Wike’s confession had ended the mystery about how he procured the
shocking judgement considering that Dr. Odili’s wife, Mrs. Mary Odili,
is a Justice of the Supreme Court.
“That
Wike may have influenced the outcome of the judgement given by the
Supreme Court for PDP in Rivers State was further exposed by PDP
supporters, who started celebrating the judgement by 9am – almost ten
hours before the incredulous judgement was delivered at 6.45pm on
Wednesday, January 27, 2016,” Rivers APC said.
The party
regretted that Rivers people had by the judgement been denied the
opportunity to vote for the governorship candidate of their choice
simply because “to Wike, everything in this world, including every
judgement, has a price tag.”
Rivers APC aligned itself with the
position of the Head of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Committee,
Prof. Itse Sagay, that the reasons adduced by the Supreme Court for its
judgement on the Rivers governorship election are not convincing.
Citing
the statement by Prof. Itse Sagay,APC said the erudite Scholar in his
reaction titled, ‘Wike Climbed Into The Governorship Seat Over Dead
Bodies’: “Everybody knows that people like Wike climbed into the
governorship seat over dead bodies and over the blood of human beings.
There were no elections, they wrote the results; the evidence is there.”
Sagay added that what the Supreme Court has done is to set the clock of
electoral excellence and fairness and credibility back by, “ I do not
want to say a thousand years, but certainly it is taking us back to
where we were before (former INEC Chairman, Prof. Atahiru) Jega came in
and sanitised the system.”
The party expressed its conviction that
“the blood of our 100 members killed to install Wike as Rivers State
Governor will one day touch the minds of the Supreme Court Justices and
make them to give correct judgements that will save Nigeria from the
shame in the international community occasioned by this unjust
judgement.”
The statement also berated those that are criticising the
party’s gubernatorial candidate, Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, for his
principled stand on the obvious misleading judgement of the Supreme
Court. Dr Dakuku Peterside only quoted what Wike said in Church and drew
the attention of the world to it without passing a judgement. The fact
remains that Dr Peterside never ever criticized the judiciary. Every
person knows that Dr Dakuku Peterside is a man of character and high
moral standing.
APC said in other climes what Wike said in church
could cause an outrage. The party dismissed those criticizing Dr
Peterside in this regard as being insensitive to the inviolability and
sanctity of life as the 100 souls of APC killed for Gov Wike to be so
elected meant nothing to them.
To us, these people are ignorant
people who do not deserve any serious attention. If anybody or
institution is angry, such an institution or fellow should shift their
anger to Wike who shamelessly told the entire world how he procured his
Supreme Court judgement and leave Dr Peterside out of this sad
development in our judiciary.
Rivers APC attaches a version of the
you tube recording of Gov. Nyesom Wike’s speech at his Thanksgiving
Service in Port Harcourt Sunday, February 7, 2016.
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/02/16/wikes-revelations-an-indictment-on-supreme-court-apc/
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