RIVERS 2015: Wike won’t get up to 10 % of votes Says– APC

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that immediate past Minister of State for Education and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the state for the 2015 election, Chief Nyesom Wike, won’t get up to 10 percent of the votes to be cast during the governorship election in the State despite the support by First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan. Continue...

Wike’s emergence as PDP candidate was in a controversial manner as 16 other aspirants were prevented from attending the primary election to select the party’s governorship candidate.

The position of the APC was contained in a statement on Tuesday by Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, SSA Media and Public Affairs to the State Chairman, APC Rivers State.

It said, “Wike would have tried to be man enough and allow the G16 to contest and defeat him flatly instead of allowing himself to be imposed as Rivers PDP governorship candidate through what has been generally accepted to be the most fraudulent and kangaroo governorship congress ever in Nigeria’s history. This is a man who is perpetually afraid of competition and who never believes in a free and fair election, hence we are not surprised that he brazenly used his stooges and clowns in PDP to frustrate and rig out the 16 better qualified gubernatorial aspirants. To say the least, Wike’s governorship ambition is both ungodly and unholy while his emergence as PDP’s candidate is shabby, dubious, shameful and undemocratic.”

“Wike is no match in any way to our credible candidate, Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, a man of unimpeachable character with a proven record of performance. His chances, which were slim from the very beginning, have been further dimmed by the plot of the G16 disenfranchised governorship aspirants to fight him to a standstill. Besides, the recent smashing of Wike’s rigging plot by the Police, which nabbed his foot soldiers cloning INEC Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) in a hotel in Port Harcourt belonging to one of his key supporters, has further weakened eroded the probability of his winning the 2015 governorship polls.

“In view of the above irrefutable facts, coupled with the efforts of both INEC and the security agencies to eliminate rigging during the 2015 elections, we make bold to predict that Wike and President Jonathan would require a miracle to get up to 10% of the votes to be cast during the 2015 governorship polls in Rivers State,” the statement concluded.