Assassination Claim: Wike ‘Hunted By Blood Of The Innocent’ – Presidency

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is being “hunted by the blood of the innocent”, the Presidency has said on Monday.

This comes after Governor Wike, who during Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily today, reaffirmed his claim of an alleged plot by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to assassinate him.

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Recall that the governor had held a thanksgiving service to mark the third anniversary of his administration’s leadership at the Living Faith Church in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Sunday, where he first made the claim.

“Intelligence report available to us as of this morning indicated that they are plotting to assassinate me in a crowd and claim it was an accidental discharge.

“The level of conspiracy against Rivers state is unfortunate. Instead of focusing on governance, they focus on how to assassinate me or frame me up. I am not afraid of my residence being searched by the police, but I know their evil intention,” the governor had said during the Church programme.

Following Governor Wike’s claim, Channels TV invited him to appear on their flagship daily live show ‘Sunrise Daily’ to shed more light on his assassination claim against the government.

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Asked how he arrived at the conclusion of the alleged assassination plot against him, Wike said, “It is not in my place to tell you the source of information, what is important is the relevance of that information.

“There is nothing that I have said [previously] that has not come to light. Take, for example, I did say that the Inspector General of Police had signed a search warrant for the police to go to court to get a search warrant to search my house and people asked how I knew. And I said the question is not how I got to know but if it was true. I went to court and the police came to court to defend it that they were entitled to search my house. Just a few days ago the court gave a judgment that the police cannot search my house because I have immunity based on section 308 of the 1999 constitution as amended.

“I came up again and said look, I have intelligence that I will be treated the same way the late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha of Bayelsa State was treated. It is not in my place to tell you who told me this because it is intelligence and they have never denied that.

“And I want to repeat what I said yesterday that the Federal Government is plotting to assassinate me and that that assassination will be carried out in a crowed and it will be seen as if it was an accidental discharge. And I stand by that,” said Wike.

Reacting to the governor’s claim during the TV programme monitored by THE WHISTLER, Buhari’s personal assistant on social media, Lauretta Onochie said, “He’s a man haunted by the blood of the innocent he has shed since 2015. To survive, the people of Rivers state must come together to uproot this paranoid Governor.”

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