The 2023 governorship candidate of the Social Democratic
Party, SDP, in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Abe, has urged the state governor,
Nyesom Ezenwo Wike not to return the state to the dark era of fear and
intimidation in the forthcoming general elections.
He also asked other politicians in the state to eschew
politics of bitterness and antagonism that would portray the state in a bad
light.
Abe made these declarations when members of the Southern
Kaduna Peoples Forum and Middle Belt Forum who are residents in the state paid
him a solidarity visit in PortHarcourt, Rivers State capital.
But the former lawmaker’s reaction followed Wike’s state
broadcast last weekend where he expressed fears and reservations about
politicians allegedly meeting cultists in Hotels, bars, resorts and other
entertainment centres to wreak havoc in the state.
In his words, “I was particularly disturbed when I saw the
name of my party the Social Democratic Party- (SDP) mentioned in that
broadcast.
“My own concern and prayer is that this election cannot
return Rivers State to the old place of fear, to the old place of challenges
and crisis that we used to have in previous elections.
“I want to appeal to His Excellency, that he is our
Governor, whether we are members of SDP, APC, PDP or whatever political parties
we belong to; we are all Rivers men and women and our objective is to choose a
leader for our people that will carry us forward, not to bring cultists and
fight one another.”
However, Abe suggested a security summit, where all
political leaders would be invited to share their ideas on how to have peaceful
elections before, during and after the 2023 elections in the state.
“If there are genuine concerns about security in the state,
I will expect the governor as a friend and father of the State, to call all of
us to sit down together and share ideas on how to go forward into this election
in a peaceful, convivial atmosphere in which everybody will be free to
participate.
“Whether the governor likes it or not, it is the
responsibility of the governor to provide a peaceful and conducive atmosphere
for all for all of us and I will plead that we come together and talk to one
another”.
“I will appeal to my fellow politicians, the governor has
expressed his security concerns, let us not begin to attack one another on the
basis of that, instead let us sit down and look for solutions that will enable
us cross these challenges without hitches.
“Our state will be peaceful. I believed that Rivers people
know that without peace there can be no progress, without peace, there can be
no prosperity, without peace, there is no future”.
But Leader of the group, Samuel Adamu said they came to
pledge their support to Senator Abe and to assure him that they would galvanize
the support of all their members for him in the 2023 general elections.
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