SUN NEWS
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has described as untrue the claim by the Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council in the state, Abiye Sekibo, that he sponsored assassination attempt on him.
The governor emphatically declared that he had never and would not indulge in any act of sponsoring assassins against anybody.
Governor Wike debunked Sekibo’s ludicrous allegation when he spoke at the Rivers East Senatorial District rally of the PDP that held at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt yesterday.
His words: “Let me use the opportunity to debunk an allegation that some persons may have made that one Abiye Sekibo said that I sponsored attempted assassination on his life.
“I want to state categorically clear, all of us from Rivers State know who is who. We know who has killed so many people in this state.”
Governor Wike recalled the aspect of the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up by the Chibuike Amaechi administration and was headed by late Justice Kayode Eso that clearly indicted Sekibo.
“Justice Kayode Eso, retired justice of the Supreme Court of blessed memory, in a judicial panel report, indicted Abiye Sekibo as the head of cultists that killed so many people in Rivers State,” Wike said.
Governor Wike insisted that allegation of burning down of the venue that had been graciously approved by his administration for the PDP Presidential Campaign Council to hold its presidential campaign rally, was also not true…
