APC Wants To Destabilise Rivers, RSG Alleges

Rivers State Governor,Chief Nyesom Wike (left), in warm embrace with the Oba of Ogbaland, Sir Chukwumela Nnam Obi, during a Special Security Town Hall Meeting in Omoku on Monday

The Rivers State Government has flayed the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the March 19 re-run polls in Rivers State, Senator Margnus Abe over his comments at a campaign rally in Bori, that “Governor Nyesom Wike was marginalizing Ogoni people,” saying that the comment was capable of inciting the people and destabilising the state.
The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Dr. Austin Tam-George, said Abe’s comment was not only inciting but part of APC’s strategy of causing chaos and destabilizing the state.
Tam-George called on the people of Ogoni to ignore Abe’s inciting comment, but support the Nyesom Wike-led administration to succeed.
The commissioner said the Wike administration has no intention to marginalize the Ogonis or any part of Rivers State, but was totally committed to the development of the state.
He decried the overzealousness and desperation of APC politicians in the state, who have resorted to crude measures and deceptive strategies in advancing their “fundamentalist” cause.
The commissioner attributed the brewing political tension in Ogoni and some parts of the state ahead of the March 19 re-run polls to the desperation and extremist tendencies of the APC, and called on the security operatives to operate within the ambit of the law, and not allow partisan politics to mire their professional duties.