The Governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi said Mrs. Jonathan is in control of Rivers state police. He made the allegation while receiving the special representatives
of the UN Secretary-General led by Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas in his office
in Rivers state yesterday March 25th.
“Members of APC have been crying out loud to the country and the world.
In Rivers State, the wife of the President, who is from Rivers State has
taken over the control of the Police Force. On Tuesday night, the
Commissioner of Police attempted to arrest a member of the Rivers State
House of Assembly and the reason for doing that is to ensure that APC
members don’t come out on election day.
And as I speak to you now, the lawmaker has moved
into Government House for protection.
More so, we have over 400 APC members in Police detention. The other
day, I asked the Police Commissioner and he told me that those arrested
were criminals and why should I ask him to release them. Do we only have
criminals in APC? What about the period when the APC gubernatorial
candidate Dr. Dakuku Peterside led members of the Party to a rally in
Okrika. The APC campaign train was shot at, by hoodlums and PDP members.
Now, ask the Commissioner of Police if he carried out any arrest? In
that attack it was observed that the PDP killed a Policeman and injured
several APC members. The Commissioner of Police is totally helpless. In
the same vein, on Tuesday, PDP hoodlums went to the House of the
Commissioner of Power, Hon. Augustine Nwokocha with Military Uniforms
and killed his relations, injured others and further burnt down the
house of his Personal Assistant. All these attacks and impunity can
measure that the elections can be free, but, may not be fair.
The APC is not running election against PDP all over the states across
the country. The APC is running election against the institutions of
government. And they include; the Police and the Military. The Chief of
Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah is from Rivers State. As I talk
to you now, he has deployed Special Military to Opobo/Nkoro local
government area where he comes from, and incidentally, the APC guber
candidate, Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside comes from Opobo. So, you virtually
expect resistance and nobody is concerned about the plight of APC. The
APC is threatening to go back to the International Criminal Court (ICC)
where the United Nations will witness how President Jonathan and the PDP
are using the Police and the Military to trigger violence”, Amaechi
said.
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