The senator representing Rivers
South East senatorial district, Magnus Abe has said that he will not attend the
public hearing on a petition written against the Nigerian Army by the Civil
Liberties Organisation.
Abe, in a letter he wrote to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, claimed that the
public hearing was part of the political manipulation of the Governor Nyesom
Wike-led Peoples Democratic Party’s government in Rivers State.
He stated that the petition was
signed by Mr. Livingstone Wechie, an ally of Wike who has been against the All
Progressives Congress in Rivers State
Abe’s letter to Dogara was
titled, “Re: Politically manipulated public hearings on Rivers State.”
The letter read in part, “Mr.
Speaker sir, I have read through the said petition and it is clear that the
petition sponsored through your office is nothing but an ill-disguised attempt
by the Peoples Democratic Party to manipulate federal agencies and influence
public opinion in order to secure undue advantage for the PDP in the coming
rerun elections.
“The public hearing is part of
the political manipulation of the Governor Nyesom Wike-led Peoples Democratic
Party’s government in Rivers State
“Wechie was the pilot of a group,
Integrity Group, which submitted a petition against former Governor Rotimi
Amaechi before the Senate.
“He was also the plaintiff in a
suit which was filed to stop the swearing in of an APC lawmaker, Victoria
Nyeche, to the Rivers State House of Assembly.
“Wike had for long been
manipulating the National Assembly to intervene in the affairs of Rivers State
against the interest of the opposition APC in the state.”
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