APC Not Ready To Help Build Rivers -RSG …Dismisses Peterside’s Allegation As False, Inciting

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike (middle), former Minister of Sports, Dr Tammy Danagogo (left) and Chairman of Monier Construction Company, Senator John Mbata (right), during the governor’s inspection of Nkpogu-NLNG Bridge project in Port Harcourt, yesterday.

Rivers State Government says the All Progressives Congress(APC) and its guber candidate in last April elections, Dakuku Peterside is bent on disrupting governance rather than accepting the Supreme Court’s judgment in good faith.
The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Dr.Austin Tam- George said in a chat with newsmen yesterday following a statement by APC’s guber candidate that Wike had already known the outcome of the Supreme Court judgment and was boasting to defeat Boko Haram sent to Rivers State.
But Tam- George said the claims of APC and Peterside betray their disposition not to accept the outcome of the legal tussle as the party is paying lip service by promising to join hands in moving the state forward.
He wondered how the governor would have known the outcome of a judgment whose proceedings were moved to Abuja, accusing the APC of deliberately impugning the integrity of the apex court’s justices.
The Commissioner while responding to claims that Wike  had also threatened the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) staff over his statement that they should write their will before coming to conduct re-run elections maintained that the governor wanted to protect the wish of Rivers people from being stolen.
Tam-George said , “ the governor is not the only governor to denounce the process of the electoral process,” while recalling that before the presidential elections, President Buhari had issued similar warning against rigging the 2015 elections.
On the statement that Governor Wike made that he would have withdrawn from contesting elections as a result of the violence that would have followed a re-run, the commissioner argued that the governor only was contemplating dropping his ambition if it would save lives considering the tension and anxiety that took over the state ahead the judgment.
The State Information boss also debunked allegation that Wike had underrated the Presidency and the military when he said even Boko Haram would not have won election in Rivers State.” Wike said even if you withdraw soldiers to rig elections in Rivers State, they will not obey such orders to subvert the will of the people,” he explained.
Even Wike’s statement on the anti-corruption crusade according to Tam-George was misconstrued as the governor only drew attention to the selective way and manner the Presidency was going about the matter.
He said the weight of evidence against former Governor Amaechi in squandering the resource of the state had been swept under the carpet, adding, “ we want to see a more responsible fight and not a picture of witch hunt.”
Dr. Tam-George called on the people and the Presidency to be wary of the APC and its ploy to pitch the people of the state and Niger-Delta against the Federal Government, stressing that the period of campaign and propaganda were over as now is the time to build, hence, they should stop distracting the present administration.