From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt
A Port Harcourt-based lawyer and stalwart of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Mr. Princewill Dike, has declared that no amount of character assassination to de-market Governor Nyesom Wike will work.
Dike stated this in Port Harcourt, on Monday, following an allegation by the state director of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Abiye Sekibo, that Rivers governor wanted to assassinate him.
He described the allegation as ludicrous, hilarious, stating that accusing Wike of state-sponsored violence is dead on arrival.
The legal practitioner alleged that during the administration of former Rivers State governor, Peter Odili, the former Minster of Transport turned the state to a theatre of war.
He expressed: “Should one say, ludicrous, hilarious or vexatious, reading/hearing Abiye Sekibo accuse Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, CON, of fake “assassination” attempt on his life?
“In this part of human habitat, we have one common ailment: collective amnesia. We forget history easily! If not, Abiye Sekibo would not have had the bravodo to accuse an innocuous man, without a scintilla history of violence, of being behind the purported assassination attempt on his life.”
He asked: “Has it taken a flight off our memory, the dramatis persona that turned Rivers State into a theatre of war during the Odili administration? Rivers State became akin to what Ross graphically lamented as the sad state of Scotland during the terror reign of Macbeth.”
The PDP chieftain reminded the former minister of who members of the public pointed fingers of accusation at on the murder of a renonwed, late A.K. Dikibo.
He alleged: “Abiye Sekibo is a merchant of violence in Rivers State. To tar brush Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, he scripted a poor “assassination” attempt on him. But, the public knows who he is.
“No character assassination will de-market Governor Wike in Rivers State. Rivers people love him because of his infrastructural renaissance. Evidence of their love for him is proved in the mammoth crowd that attends the ongoing Rivers PDP campaign trail.
“Can Abiye Sekibo and his co-travellers tell us another story? Accusing Wike of state sponsored violence is dead on arrival.”