Federal security agents from Abuja have arrived Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, to arrest Felix Obuah, the state Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, but Governor Nyesom Wike has said that the arrests of PDP stalwarts ahead of Saturday’s rerun election would be resisted.
The Heat is too Real
Wike said the arrests of some PDP Chieftains in state less than 48 hours to the election was a calculated attempt to give the All Progressives Congress, APC, undue advantage and that could create avoidable crisis in the state.
Governor Wike, who was on a live radio station Thursday morning, said: “A whole Chairman of a party you send people from Abuja to come and arrest him and you say we should fold our hands? When you push people to the wall they will resist because they will say enough is enough and thatd what leads to revolution.”
On the deployment of the soldiers and statement by President Muhammadu Buhari that the security agencies have been directed to deal decisively with sponsors of violence in the state, the Governor said he would not comment on that.
He said “As the Chief Security Officer of the state, I was not consulted but they have assured of tight security. As a state we have given them necessary support.”
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