Dr Dakuku Peterside, DG of NIMASA and APC governorship candidate in the 2015 elections during a rally in Etche LGA today asked Governor NyesomWike 10 important questions as follows: Which Govt has officially promoted & supported kidnapping and under its watch 1200 persons have been kidnapped in one year? Which government has superintended over the…
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, maintained that as governor of Rivers State for eight years, he was transparent and did not embezzle money meant for the people as being alleged by successor, Nyesom Wike. He made the clarification at a stakeholders’ forum on corruption organised by the Federal Ministry of Justice in Abuja on Thursday.…
A group known as Vanguard for Justice, Equity and Strategy has commended the INEC for carrying forward the date of the planned Rivers re-run election as a result of incessant killings of people in the state. Speaking in a seminar on Youth violence in Port Harcourt over the weekend, the vice President of the group,…
The postponement of the July 30 rerun election in Rivers State by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been blamed on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. According to the Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, it received the news of the rescheduling with mixed feelings, adding that their instinctive response is that…
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to what they described as the “wild and unconscionable” assertions of Gov. Nyesom Wike at Okehi today, adding that it must be the classical case of “an evil workman quarrelling with his tools, his neighbours and passers-by.” “Let it be on record that…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has accused the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmud Yakubu, of taking actions that are inimical to credible rerun elections in the state by his alleged secret meeting with the Rivers State APC chairman, Davies Ikanya and Senator Magnus Abe on July 19, 2016. Addressing…
Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said its attention has been drawn to a statement by Governor Nyesom Wike on Monday expressing shock that there is a “plot to reverse the gains made by the state in the promotion of security of lives and property through the re-posting of compromised police officers…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has declared that the immediate past administration of Rotimi Amaechi, never frittered away N3 trillion in eight years as being claimed by the present Commissioner for Information and Communication in the state, Austin Tam-George. The opposition party in a statement signed by its spokesman, Senibo Chris Finebone…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has warned that his administration will do everything to clampdown on criminals in the state. He disclosed that his government will continue its anti-cultism and anti-kidnapping war until all criminals are rooted out of the state. Wike, who spoke on Monday after he supervised the demolition of two hideouts…
The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has alleged that the state governor is planning to use the N9 billion he asked for to prosecute the July 30 rerun in Rivers. The opposition party in the state, in a statement signed by its Chairman, Davies Ikanya, therefore condemned what it called “unconscionable and…