Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers
state, has alleged that the federal government is planning to set him up.
He said the government is
planning to use its security agencies to plant implicating items on him
whenever he travels abroad.
The governor said this on Sunday
in a statement issued by Simeon Nwakaudu, his special assistant on electronic
media.
“My investigation reveals that
the federal government [is] using her security agencies in planning to set me
up anytime I am travelling outside the country,” he said.
“They plan to organise security
to storm the hotel I am staying and say they found xyz cash in my possession;
after which they would say I was arrested for currency trafficking or whatever
offences outside the country.
“They will then precipitate
crisis in my state and other parts of Nigeria. They will plan demonstrations to
demonize me and claim I have gone outside to embarrass the country. The public
odium is meant to smear me before my people and other Nigerians. It is unfortunate,
wicked and unfair.”
Wike likened the alleged plan to
“what was once done to the late Chief DSP Alamieseigha”.
The governor said he wants to
alert the world of the “sinister plot” and being “a law-abiding citizen, any
attempt to frame me up on trumped up charges or alleged offences is bound to
fail”.
He said: “What they are doing is
just cheap politics. They want to intimidate the opposition into silence as
they are already doing with their so-called ‘looters’ list’. It won’t work. We
can’t all be intimidated.”
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