Police Report Aimed At Blackmail – Rivers Govt

[caption id="attachment_16402" align="alignnone" width="699"]Governor Nyesom Wike[/caption]

The Rivers State Government has described the police report which alleged that Governor Nyesom Wike bribed 23 electoral officers with N360 million as a resort to blackmail, which would not stand.

State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Dr Austin Tam-George, in a statement shortly after the police briefing, described the “allegations of the Police as shameful, defamatory and reckless in the extreme. Never in the annals of infamy have we seen a vital State security institution descend to the lowest depths of blackmail and criminality, as the Nigeria Police Force has done in this case.”

Tam-George said, “A month ago, we alerted the world to the dark, Orwellian plot by the Nigeria Police to implicate governor Wike in a phoney bribe scandal. Now, the Police appears to be acting with shocking predictability, by making wild and completely groundless allegations against Wike.

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“The Rivers State Government challenges the Nigeria Police to show proof that Governor Wike financially induced any official of INEC. Does the Police have Bank records of the purported transactions between Governor Wike and the Electoral Officers? We challenge the Nigeria Police to move quickly to prosecute and imprison the so-called Electoral Officers on the basis of this dubious investigation.

“We strongly believe that the police panel is part of a bitter, politically-driven smear campaign launched by the Federal Government against Governor Nyesom Wike, and the people of Rivers State.

“We also believe that the Police is desperately seeking to divert attention from the disgraceful and criminal roles played by its officials, in the snatching and stuffing of ballot boxes during the December polls.

“Rivers State will not succumb to the juvenile antics of the All Progressives Congress and its security surrogates.”

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