•Report by Kamil Opeyemi
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has denied allegations that he moved around to intimidate and cause disruption during the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday.
The governor said this through his Commissioner for Information, Mr Chris Finebone, in a statement on Monday saying that, the accusation is derived only from the wicked imagination of failed evil doers.
The statement clarified that “Gov. Wike does not have a single soldier in his formal and informal entourage at any time, more so, during election time”.
According to the statement, the accusation is peddled by the same persons who in 2016 during the rerun election in Rivers State, doctored audio and visual clips to incriminate the Governor.
“Of particular mention is a doctored audio clip that was concocted by Saharareporters during the 2016 re-run election in Rivers State in which they purported same to be a discussion between the governor and Hon. Dum Dekor.”
It also stated that the audio which was duly discredited by the government, is hurriedly dung up this election period to throw dirt at the governor.
“That audio concoction was duly discredited and discarded as a piece of rubbish masterminded by evil people to tarnish the image of Gov. Wike. But in a hurry to throw dirt at the governor this time, some people decided to exhume and use same old discredited clip to justify their evil machination of sullying the image of the governor,” the statement read
It further explained that after Gov. Wike and his wife managed to cast their votes in Saturday’s election, they quietly returned to their home and never stepped out for the rest of the day.
“Let it be clearly stated that after Gov. Wike and his wife managed to cast their vote last Saturday, they quietly returned to their home and never stepped out for the rest of the day. It was, therefore, surprising that the same individuals who, for reasons best known to them, decided to lie against the governor, have gone ahead to raise false accusations suggesting that Gov. Wike moved about with soldiers intimidating people and influencing voting and collation of votes. This is, indeed, a lie taken from the very abyss of hell.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Gov. Wike does not have a single soldier in his formal and informal entourage at any time, more so, during election time. The governor did not for whatever reason visit or move around after casting his vote. The accusation of him moving around to intimidate or cause any disruption of any kind derives only from the wicked imagination of evil doers but they have failed.
“Therefore, the general public is, by this press statement, urged to disregard the concocted video and audio clips, voice notes and other forms of multimedia contraptions to tarnish the image of Gov. Nyesom Wike,” the statement added