NEWS:Wike’s Supreme Court Victory Has Deepened Pain Of Rivers People – Peterside

NEWS:Wike’s Supreme Court Victory Has Deepened Pain Of Rivers People – Peterside

 

Director-General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has said that the judgement of the Supreme Court, which upheld the election of Governor Nyesom Wike has deepened the pains of the people of Rivers State.

Peterside stated this when the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressive Congress (APC) visited communities where members of the party were murdered in the state.

He called on the federal government to rise up to the occasion and provide security to the people of the state, promising that the next elections would be done without violence, saying  that the APC would win all the assembly seats.

He said, “Our people havebeen brutally killed. Gruesome killing is our experience in the state, but the APC has remained resilient. But the days of killings are over. The APC is very prepared for the election; all we need now is security to give the electorates safety.”

Speaking during the visit, Deputy National Chairman of APC, Engr. Segun Oni, said the style at which people, especially members and supporters of the party are being killed in the state indicates that there is ongoing genocide against APC members in the state.

Insisting that the the act of killing and chopping off heads of APC members by their assailants was purely genocide adding that such act would stop soon, Oni vowed that the party would make a serious appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the precarious situation of the people of the state.

He said, “I am surprised that this kind of thing is happening in Rivers which indeed is part of Nigerian. It is strange that people will kill their fellow human being, cut off their and take it away as if it were a souvenir.

“This kind of killing is nothing less than genocide. We have not heard enough until today that we have entered into this state. What is happening here is worst that we hear over there. This is purely genocide visited on APC members.

“The federal government needs to do something quickly to save this situation, because it is a shame to allow a part of Nigeria to degenerate into this mess. The brutal killing of APC members in the state must stop. Our people must not continue to die because they identified with a political party.”