Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has dismissed as baseless the allegations raised by Tonye Cole, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) attacked him and prevented him from accessing INEC office in Port Harcourt.
Cole, in the company of Emeka Beke, the state chairman of Rivers APC narrowly escaped harm near the state INEC office, along Aba Road, Port Harcourt while going to get elections materials to back up his case at the elections tribunal.
But Wike wondered why Cole and not his lawyers or agents, was the one going to the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) office to collect certified true copies (CTC) of electoral materials.
The governor, who spoke at the inauguration of Government Secondary School in Kpor Community of Gokana Local Government Area on Tuesday, noted that Cole lost the governorship election, and urged him to come out clean so that people would know his intentions,
The governor said: “Have you seen where a candidate is going to INEC to collect certified true copies (CTC)? What are your lawyers doing. What are your agents doing? These are duties of lawyers. What CTC do you want to collect.
“Can’t people see the truth of the matter, you’ve lost the election. Even if they cancel the election 25 thousand times in this State, you cannot win us(PDP) in this State. Let the truth be told.”
Wike said already, proactive measures are taken to ensure that APC is not allowed the liberty to repeat what they did in 2015, when it manipulated the Nigeria Police to tender results at the tribunal that truncated the will of the people.
The governor reiterated that APC as a political party is dead in Rivers State, therefore, cannot win any election. According to him, this was manifested in the last election as Tonye Cole could not win any legislative seat for his party.
Wike boasted that everybody knows who was behind the bulk vote that Bola Tinubu got from Rivers State, and he owes nobody any apology for supporting the emergence of a southern presidency.
“How can people say that they rigged you. You said you made your presidential candidate to win. Your presidential won, but you don’t get one senate (seat). What kind of wining is that?”
