Posted on: 09:32 Thu, 10 Mar 2016



The Rivers State Government has
condemned as provocative and
irresponsible a statement made by
the Acting National Chairman of
the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Mr Segun Oni, who claimed that
Governor Nyesom Wike was
responsible for the recent violence
in Rivers State.

In a statement released by the
Rivers State Commissioner for
Information and Communication,
Dr Austin Tam-George, the State
Government denied any
involvement in the cult-related
violence that has claimed some
lives in certain sections of the state.

Dr Tam-George said the APC’s
reckless and false allegations were
part of a plan to incite the military
and other security forces against
the people of Rivers State. ‘It is a
crude plan to militarize the state
and use the security forces to steal
the results of the forthcoming re-
run elections’, the commissioner
said.

Dr Tam-George said investigations
by the Rivers State police command
have since revealed that the recent
deaths arose from retributive
attacks launched by rival cult gangs
fighting for supremacy. The police
have since arrested some key
culprits who have made useful
statements, the commissioner
emphasized.

“The attempt by the APC to
appropriate every dead person in
River State as their member might
mean that the APC is in fact the
sponsor of these satanic cult
clashes, all in an attempt to
destabilize the Wike
administration,” the commissioner
said