APC Dares Wike on confession to Bribery Allegations
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC has said it would like Governor Nyesom Wike and the PDP to tell the world whether they did not bribe INEC officials as alleged and discovered by the IGP Panel, adding that they should also tell the people whether INEC officials who were alleged to have collected the bribe money did not actually confess to the crime.
According to them the proof of bribery from the report of the Inspector-General of Police,IGP, panel’s investigation is a welcome development.
“Does the proof of bribery provided by the police as evidence that Gov. Wike gave bribe to electoral officials not authenticate the act to the extent that those who made the refunds are alive?” the party asked.
The APC recalled that out of the sum of N360m alleged to have been given as bribe the sum of N110m which the panel said it physically recovered from the INEC officials by the Police.
According to a press statement signed by Mr. Chris Finebone, the Publicity Secretary of the Chairman of the APC in Rivers State, the party said: “We feel a sense of vindication over repeated alarm we sounded before, during after the general and rerun elections of 2015 and 2016 that Gov. Nyesom Wike bribes electoral officials before and during every election in Rivers State.
“Indeed, the IGP Panel report goes further to confirm that the audio bribery clips published by Saharareproters in which the voice of Gov. Wike was directing the deployment of bribe money to INEC officials is real and authentic despite the barefaced denials by the governor,” the party said.
The statement continued: “Even more laughable is the attempt to disown the exhibit claiming that it belongs to the APC. Where on earth could the APC in Rivers State have found that kind of money if not the governor who withdrew N2bn belonging to River’s taxpayers just before the rerun election from which N260m was paid out to electoral officials as bribe money?
“It is obvious that the old-fashioned antics of the governor and the PDP are simply not flying; a thousand press conferences cannot help because lies are known to have expiry date. Gov Wike and the PDP must show uncommon bravery by accepting the fate which awaits anyone who dares in the wrong direction of the law,” it said.
