Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the PDP Campaign
Council for the Edo State Governorship election, Nyesom Wike, has alleged plans
from some quarters to scuttle the Edo State Governorship election on September
7 in a desperate effort to remove Governor Godwin Obaseki from Office.
Governor Wike said this while briefing newsmen at the
Government House in Port Harcourt.
Wike stated that the alleged plan is to scuttle the
governorship election in Edo State because the All Progressives Congress is
scared of a free and fair election.
Chairman of the Edo PDP Campaign Council also alleged plans
by security agencies to compromise the Sept. 11 elections in Edo State.
He added that the Campaign Council has intercepted
intelligence reports on how security agencies intend to execute their plans in
Edo, which will be exposed in a few weeks.
“Why is the APC so confident about what will happen. It is
because they think that they have security on their side. But in a weeks time,
we will roll-out all their game plans as regards security in this election. We
will roll-out their game plans with all the security to rig this election.
“We know the modus operandi of security in this election.
When they want to rig the election, we know what they do. We have gathered
enough intelligence on what they intend to do and we can tell you, we would
scuttle it.
“If I were the IG or the Chief of Army Staff, I will use
this election to tell Nigerians that our country can be better so that if we
had been accused before, we can use this election to correct it.
“And then INEC too should come and make Nigerians have
confidence in them. And we want to say that the statement made by the INEC
Chairman, saying that if there is violence, they will stop the election.
In that case, you will play to the hands of the opposition,
because what they want to do is make sure that there is more violence and then
the election will not hold and then by November, Obaseki’s tenure would have
ended. That is why they went ahead to do that illegal inauguration of their own
Speaker of the House of Assembly.
“They (APC) are not interested in the election. All they
want is to cause enough violence so that INEC can cancel or suspend the
election and then wait till November when Obaseki’s tenure would have ended. We
know all this system,” Wike said.
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