The Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has
noted with shock the highly incendiary remarks made by Governor Nyesom Wike
last Sunday while speaking at St. Thomas’ Anglican Church, Diobu, Port Harcourt
during a thanksgiving service in which the governor swore to die in 2019
instead the APC will win the State.
The APC in a press release signed and made available
to journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State today by the Party’s Publicity
Secretary, Mr. Chris Finebone said “ as a party, we find the governor’s
statement as extremely unbefitting and grossly demeaning to the high office of
governor of a state. Governor Nyesom Wike’s vituperation in the holy house of
God quickly reminds us that the governor is an unrepentant believer in violent
politics. More importantly, it appears he is heading back to his old path of
threat, incitement and sabre-rattling as a political ideology.”
The APC reminded the governor that “Rivers people have
had enough humiliation in the eyes of Nigerians who now believe that all Rivers
people are so uncouth and indecorous with words and in behaviour. The people of
Rivers State would prefer their governor to show the exemplary carriage
exhibited by past governors of the State that endeared them and Rivers people
to Nigerians and the world. Governor Wike should realise that it behoves on him
to be the best example of who Rivers people are and not the present decrepit,
bizarre and disgraceful impression he presents especially in his public
utterances.”