Rivers State Governor, Nyesom
Wike has called on the media to defend Nigerians who are suffering untold
hardship under the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government.
He said this during a courtesy
visit by the Management of the International Press Institute (IPI) at the
Government House, Port Harcourt, yesterday.
He said: “The Nigerian Press
should wake up. The Nigerian Press presently speaks for the rich. It no longer
speaks for the poor. The focus now is advertorial, instead of defending the
people.
“The press in Nigeria has been
gagged. The Press that was at forefront of ‘Jonathan Must Go’ can no longer
speak up against bad governance, electoral manipulation, electoral fraud and
total collapse of national security. What has happened to the conscience of the
Nigerian Media?”
Wike lamented that the same press
that joined some prominent Nigerians to fight the partial removal of petroleum
subsidy under Former President Goodluck Jonathan, had maintained a deafening
silence under President Muhammadu Buhari when the entire fuel subsidy was
removed in controversial circumstances.
The governor added that despite
the controversies and inconsistencies that had trailed the alleged total
removal of fuel subsidy, there were no calls for occupy Nigeria in the media.
He insisted that the APC Federal
Government planned to use illegal means to manipulate the electoral process.
The governor said that in Rivers
State, the Police High Command rewarded Mr Akin Fakorede, who was indicted by
the INEC Committee on Rivers Rerun, for massive electoral fraud.
He said: “It is good that the
International Press Institute is coming to Nigeria to see the injustice and
illegality that characterise the present administration.
“There is no image for Nigeria to
launder. We need the world to know what is happening in the country. The World
through the IPI will know the nature of the war against corruption where the
Federal Government convicts opponents who are still before the courts.
“The world through the IPI will
also know how if you don’t want to be a corrupt man, enter the ruling party. It
is good for IPI to come to Nigeria to see the atrocities that the Federal
Government is committing.”
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