The APC in Rivers state has accused
Governor Nyesom Wike of abandoning
all construction activities at all work
sites in the state.
The harvest of deaths
Like a gory tale from a horror movie,
unidentified gunmen on Thursday
morning, March 17, laid siege on
Mgbuitanwo, in Emohua Clan, Emohua
local government area of Rivers state,
the home country of the senatorial
candidate of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) in this
Saturday’s rerun elections, Chief
Andrew Uchendu, and beheaded a 28-
year-old man identified as Mr.
Ukeoma.
The victim was shot before he was
decapitated by the unknown gunmen,
who attacked the community at about
5:30am in the morning.
As if that was not enough, the political
thugs abducted another resident,
leaving behind a trail of blood and
terror.
In a similar development, The Nation
on March 07, 2016, reported of how
masked gunmen beheaded a chieftain
of the APC, Franklin Obi, and killed his
wife and 18-year-old son, Bestman.
In what has become a pattern in the
state the gunmen after shooting
Franklin dead, severed his head and
took it away.
The killings took place at Omoku,
headquarters of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni
local government, hometown of the
state chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Felix
Obuah.
Until his murder at his home on
Rutachi Street in Omoku, Obi was the
APC’s chairman of Ward 4, the same
ward with Obuah.
In Omoku alone last month, 25 persons
were killed, with many of them
beheaded by blood thirsty bigots,
while security agencies embarked on
their endless investigations which
usually lead nowhere.
Why Gov Wike is suspect
Rivers state has gained notoriety for
being a political blood thirsty state, in
the run-up to the 2015 presidential
and the governorship elections in
state, over than 100 innocent people
were reportedly killed.
After the Supreme Court victory of
Governor Nyesom Wike, the killings
resumed and heightened in the weeks
leading to the March 19, 2016 Rivers
state rerun into the National Assembly
and state House of Assembly.
The APC has accused the PDP-led
Rivers government of sponsoring and
stoking violence against its members.
This accusation follows from the fact
that most of the victims of the
gruesome killings are those with
political leanings to the APC.
However, the state government has
explained away the recent killing as a
supremacy battle among rival cult
gangs. It also described attempts to
link the state government to the
killings in the state as “shameless
and irresponsible”.
But narrative the state government is
in sharp contrast to happenings in
Rivers which appear to indict
Governor Nyesom Wike of fueling
political violence.
Recently Nyesom Wike at the grand
finale of the PDP campaign rally held
at Ikwerre local government area
ahead of the re-run legislative
elections this Saturday, March 19,
instructed voters to beat-up the
minister of transport, Rotimi
Amaechi if he ( Amaechi) is seen
moving around
In his words: “We know their plans.
They have arranged how to swap
original results on that day. They want
to do it Amina Zakari. Tell them we
have passed that stage. Is this how
Nigeria wants to change? We heard
Amaechi will be moving from polling
booth to polling booth. Let him try it. I
will show him that I am the Governor
of Rivers State. I challenge him to
move around. If he dares come to
anybody’s polling booth and you see
him, beat him thoroughly.”
It beats my imagination that such
words could come from the mouth of
Governor Nyesom Wike, a sitting
governor of a state. If he could urge
such orgy of violence in public against
a current minister of the federal
republic of Nigeria, then one wonders
what he would do to common APC
members in the state.
As the chief security officer of the
state, Wike cannot exonerate himself
from the current assault on APC
members in the state.
From facts on ground, the PDP-led
River state government is either guilty
of sponsoring violence against APC
members in the state or utterances
credited to the governor ahead of the
upcoming rerun in the have turned the
state into a killing field.
Even though President Muhammadu
Buhari has condemned the political
violence in Rivers state and promised
to deal decisively with all sponsors of
violence, his reactions to the killings
should not stop at that.
SOS to the federal government
The Federal Government needs to do
something by safe guarding the lives
of APC members in the state and fish
out the blood thirsty hoodlums
responsible for the killings to forestall
future recurrences.
It is a shame to allow a part of Nigeria
to degenerate into a banana republic
where targeted killings are used to
settle political scores.
As for the feeble innocence Wike is
claiming, I believe it is easier for a
Carmel to pass through the eyes of a
needle than for Wike to exonerate
himself from the River bloodbath. Do
you agree?
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