APC UNVEILS REAL REASONS GOV. WIKE’S TWO WORK-FREE DAYS INCLUDED THE BANKS

….Describes Gov. Wike as the Chief “Insecurity Officer of Rivers State”  

The Rivers State chapter of Progressives Congress, APC, said credible information available to it has unveiled the real reasons why Gov. Nyesom emphasised that banks remain closed during the two work-free days he declared yesterday for Thursday and Friday.

The APC in a press statement signed by its Spokesman, Senibo Chris Finebone said as part of ploy to woo voters across Rivers State; Gov. Nyesom Wike had repeatedly announced that N2bn has been set aside for disbursement to beneficiaries of the State microfinance loans in support of PDP candidates in the re-run elections of March 19, 2016.

Continuing, the party explained that, “however, with no fund available for the purpose, the governor ordered the 23 LG Council Caretaker Chairmen to deposit N4.5m each to the Chairman of Rivers State Microfinance Agency last week. But considering the paltry nature of the total amount collected compared to what is required, the governor and his men instead decided to announce Thursday and Friday as work-free days going into Saturday rerun elections. The idea is that prospective beneficiaries who already have been notified will be persuaded to still vote for PDP candidates believing that after the elections they will begin to collect their loans from Monday. “

Statement reads: “However, the government of Gov. Nyesom Wike has other plans for them. There will be no loan to be disbursed to anyone as fresh stories will be advanced after Saturday’s election and that will be the end of the loan arrangement.

“One vivid example that the loan is a hoax is how the disbursement was being speeded up before the Supreme Court judgment believing that there will be a governorship rerun election when it would have been used to get votes from beneficiaries for the governor. But as soon as the Supreme Court affirmed Wike’s election, all arrangements for disbursing the loan died only to be revived close to the legislative rerun elections. Unable to disburse the money two days to the rerun elections compelled the governor to declare Thursday and Friday work-free non-banking days just to fool the intending beneficiaries in exchange for their votes. The two work-free non-banking days will be advanced as the reason the loan disbursement has been shelved to Monday.

“But the APC can assure supposed prospective beneficiaries of the loan that with the election gone, the government will advance other reasons why the loan disbursement cannot happen. The question remains: why was the loan disbursement put off after the Supreme Court judgment only to be brought up close to the rerun elections?

“The APC wishes to appeal to all those who have been promised will benefit from the microfinance loan to forget it and vote for candidates of the APC as the governor of Rivers State and his henchmen do not intend to advance any loans to the people. It is a ruse only advanced to curry votes.”

In another development, the Rivers State APC has described Governor Wike as “the Chief “Insecurity Officer of Rivers State

This is contained in statement made available to NF-Reports.

The full text of the statement is here:

“The instinctive response of the Rivers State chapter of All Progressive Congress, APC, to Wednesday broadcast by the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike concerning the March 19 re-run elections, was to congratulate him for taking his first lesson in statecraft and governance. However, a critical examination of the message and the messenger indicated that such hurried accolade would have been a mortal error, undeserved and totally misplaced. And the reasons are many.

“The sudden realisation by the governor that he is the Chief Security Officer of Rivers State belies the doctrine of killing on which his politics is anchored upon. Evidence of this is glaring in Nyesom Wike’s actions and utterances, for example, his repeated threats that have driven his supporters to kill and maim innocent people and residents of Rivers State. His recent threat against INEC, the Army and everyone else is indeed not what is expected of a Chief Security Officer of Rivers State, nay any state for that matter. Succinctly put, Wike’s broadcast, at best, is a piece of hypocritical, staged and worthless message because it has no connection and resemblance with the persona of the messenger.

“The APC believes that if any politician deserves the warning the governor handed down in his broadcast on incitement and political violence, it is indeed Gov. Nyesom Wike who a day earlier had ordered his supporters to beat the Honourable Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, to death on March 19. It is Nyesom Wike who promised INEC officials instant death on several occasions who deserves to be reminded that we are in the 21st Century in Rivers State.

“The APC is therefore calling on Gov. Nyesom Wike to also tell Rivers people whether he has eventually realised that killings and other forms of electoral violence are sins against God and unacceptable among men. If that is the reason for the broadcast, then the APC calls on Gov. Nyesom Wike to first tender an unreserved apology to Rivers people and seek forgiveness from God Almighty before it is too late for him.

Until the governor does the needful, the APC will continue to see the broadcast as the height of hypocrisy, treachery and facade meant to hoodwink innocent Rivers people and other stakeholders in the March 19 re-run elections in the State while he undertakes his vote rigging and killings which are his the stock-in-trade.

“Declaring Thursday and Friday public holidays smacks of either total ignorance of the cost of loss of man-hours on the State economy or done with bad intentions just to satisfy the myopic, whimsical and capricious political desires of the governor. While two days of no work on the part of the civil and public servants will result to enough losses, subjecting banks and other private sector organisations to remain closed for two days will put the already ailing economy of the State under further avoidable stress. Unfortunately, Gov. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike does not get it.”