Count Wike out of Ogoni killings —PDP

Nyesom Wike

The Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State has called on politicians to count Governor Nyesom Wike out of the killings that occurred in February in some parts of Ogoniland.

A former lawmaker in the area and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Rivers South East District, Senator Magnus Abe, had attributed the crisis in Ogoniland to the state governor.

Abe had stated that tension began to mount in Ogoniland when Wike allegedly told Ogoni people not to vote for him (Abe).

But the state Assistant Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Samuel Nwanosike, disagreed with Abe, saying that it was wrong for anybody to associate the killings in Ogoni to the governor.

Nwanosike, who spoke with journalists in Port Harcourt, explained that though the people of Ogoni knew those behind the crisis in the area, the people of the state were aware that Wike did not bring in the military into Ogoniland.

He argued that there was nothing wrong with the governor’s appeal that the people of Ogoni should vote for the PDP before an election, adding that such call could not have sparked any crisis in the area.

The PDP chieftain, however, challenged Abe to produce any document or record where Wike told the people of Ogoni to stop him (Abe) at all cost.

Nwanosike explained that Wike had been in support of security agencies in the fight against crime in the state.