2019: Buhari ’ll Declare War On Opposition -Wike

The Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, has expressed fears that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government will declare war on the opposition come 2019 general election.
According to the governor, fighter jets were the only war equipment that was not used by security agencies in the December 10 legislative rerun in Rivers State.
Wlke said the Federal Government invaded the state with all of its might to rig the exercise, leaving in its trail blood of innocent Nigerians allegedly murdered by security agencies.
Wike, who was speaking in an interview with newsmen, noted that Nigerians should be thankful to former President Goodluck Jonathan for giving the nation free and fair elections in 2015.
The governor said, “you saw the kind of invasion we witnessed on December 10 by security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
“It is clear that with what we saw in Rivers, if the President declares he wants to run in 2019, then we should expect a tsunami, anybody that does not want it should go away.
“There will be fighter jets. The only thing that was not deployed to the state on December 10 was fighter jet. We may see that, in 2019, if the President says he wants to contest the presidential election
“With the kind of invasion we had in the state for the rerun, if they are having gubernatorial and presidential elections and, by the grace of God, Mr President presents himself for the election, I wonder how it will be. This is why I said anybody thinking of election in 2019 is wasting his time.
“It will be like war. ‘If you don’t agree, we bomb you’. If you can bring 28,000 policemen, three helicopters, 20 gunboats and then train special military all for legislative rerun elections in Rivers, then I have my fear for 2019.
“You cannot believe it that Divisional Police Officers, DPOs, were all transferred on the eve of the December 10 elections.
“They brought a Special Anti-Robbery Squad from outside the state. So, you can see what a presidential election will be like. If a fighter jet does not come out, then something is wrong.
“They must bomb everybody that says no to the presidential aspiration; if you don’t die before the election, you must die on the day of the election. This will be the fate of anybody that does not agree.
“I saw it, the kind of conspiracy. Anybody that sees former President Goodluck Jonathan should say ‘thank you’ for saving this country.
“We are busy congratulating other countries, yet, we cannot have free and fair election in one state where you deployed big weapons. Let nobody deceive us that INEC is independent.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, of strategising to burn the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) office in order to destroy all evidence of what transpired during the last governorship election in the state.
The spokesman of Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the party, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, made the allegation, adding that the party has been notified of an event that happened last Wednesday, when its (PDP) representatives and those of the APC in Edo State chapters were at the INEC office in Benin City in continuation of the inspection and verification of materials used during the 2016 governorship election in compliance with the order of the Election Petition Tribunal.
According to him, PDP reliably gathered that during the exercise, some APC members had planned to destroy all evidences that could implicate APC as a result of the outcome of the governorship election in the state.
The PDP spokesman claimed that the evidences that came out from the office of the INEC shook the APC representatives, such that they started accusing INEC staff of conspiracy. “