Benue Killings: Wike’s N200m Donation Shows ‘Crass Duplicity’ – APC

The All Progressives Congress, Rivers State chapter has criticised Governor Nyesom Wike for donating N200m to the Benue State government over the herdsmen crisis.

Recall that during a visit to Benue on Wednesday, governor Wike donated N200 million to internally displaced persons in the state following attacks by herdsmen in the state

But reacting on Thursday, Chris Finebone, Rivers APC Publicity Secretary, said it was shocking that the governor will donate such an amount of money in Benue, and ignored victims of killings in Rivers state.

“The APC is shocked to know that whereas victims of killings and criminality in various parts of Rivers State are licking their wounds and wondering where help will come from, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has gone to visit and donate N200 million of Rivers State to victims of killings in Benue State,” Finebone said.

“We recall that beyond highly politicised … visits to Omoku recently, Gov. Nyesom Wike has completely ignored killings in various parts of Rivers State, especially in the local government area of his PDP national chairman, Andoni.

“The governor has neither mentioned nor visited Ajakajak and other Andoni villages where several persons have been gruesomely killed up till January, 2017.

“Why has the governor not gone to visit victims of killings in Rivers State and donate to their welfare, but chose to travel to distant Benue State to display crass duplicity?

“APC demands an answer from Gov. Wike.”

Reacting, the state Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Samuel Nwanosike, said the governor only showed brotherly love to the governor and people of Benue state.

While accusing the APC of trying to gain cheap political point, Nwanosike maintained that Wike had visited the families of those who lost their lives in the New Year Day killings in Rivers State.