Few hours to Saturday’s governorship and state assembly polls, crisis is brewing in Rivers State as governorship candidates of some political parties including the APC stormed the State Police headquarters in Port Harcourt.
The four major candidates are protesting what they called intimidation by Gov. Nyesom Wike of the PDP ahead of Saturday’s polls.
They are Senator Magnus Abe of the Social Democratic Party, Tonye Cole of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, Accord Party and Tonte Ibraye of African Democratic Congress.
They accused Wike, who leads the disarrayed G-5 Governors, of using security agencies to intimidate and arrest their members and supporters across the state.
The candidates, therefore, called on the police authorities in the state to release them without further delay so that they can participate in the elections.
Persecondnews recalls that the G-5 governors, all of the PDP, are Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Samuel Ortom (Benue) and Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia).
They had fallen out with the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar over the refusal of the National Chairman of the party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to relinquish his position for a Southerner, insisting that the party’s constitution had been violated for keeping the chairmanship and presidential candidate in the North.
They eventually worked against Atiku in the February 25 presidential poll in their various states although Atiku got more than 25 percent votes in the PDP-controlled states.
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