Re-run: Wike to release video implicating CP

Rivers  State  governor,Mr.  Nyesom  Ezenwo  Wike,has  announced  that  the state government would, in the  coming  weeks,  release audio-visual footages of the  state commissioner of police, Mr.Francis Odesanya, allegedly plotting with politicians on the methods  to  be  adopted  in  rigging  the December 10 rescheduled legislative elections.

Governor  Wike,  in  a  press statement  signed  by  his  Special Assistant,  Electronic  Media,  Mr. Simeon Nwakaudu, made the announcement while flagging off rehabilitation works of the General Hospital,  Abonnema  in  AkukuToru  Local  Government  Area  of the state, yesterday.

According  to  him,  the  audiovisual  footages  would  be  made public  through  different  media platforms  to  expose  the  extreme rigging  desires  of  the  Independent  National  Electoral  Commission  (INEC),  with  the  backing of  the  police  and  other  security

agencies. The  governor  further  alleged that  600  policemen  working  with the  Special  Anti-Robbery  Squad (SARS)  in  the  state  have  already been distributed to prominent APC leaders on local government basis by the Police Commissioner for the indiscriminate  arrest  of  Peoples  Democratic  Party  (PDP)  supporters a few days to the election. The governor added that the 600

SARS  personnel  so  distributed would also be used to unleash unprecedented  violence  on  the  people  on  election  day,  so  that  APC leaders would have time to substitute result sheets handed over to them by the INEC leadership.

“We  are  now  in  possession  of the  DVD  of  how  the  Police  Commissioner  and  some  politicians were  planning  on  how  to  rig  the forthcoming  legislative  re-run elections  in  Rivers  State.  At  the  appropriate time, we shall release the  materials  for  Nigerians  to understand the depth of the electoral  fraud  being  perpetrated  by

INEC and Police. “For  the  security  of  this  allimportant  audio-visual  material, we have mass-produced them and kept  them  at  different  locations. Nigerians  are  entitled  to  know the  truth  about  the  unfortunate rigging machine. “Now that we have caught them on tape, this will shake the world.

Rivers State is not like other states  where  you  can  plot  and  execute easy rigging plans.

“We  are  ahead  of  them  by  50 steps.  If  they  take  one  step,  we take 50. On behalf of our people, we  shall  continue  to  monitor these  persons,  who  are  trying  to steal the mandate of our people,” he said. Reacting,  the  police  image maker  in  the  state,  Mr.  Nnamdi Omoni,  told  The  Daily  Times  in a  telephone  conversation  that although he was not aware, as at press time, of the governor’s allegation, it was not possible that the commissioner of police held such clandestine  meetings  with  any political group or agency where a plot to rig the rerun election was

perfected. Mr.  Omoni  stated  that  such  a plot  was  inconceivable,  adding that the Commissioner of Police, Mr.  Francis  Odesanya,  has  been meeting with politicians, security agencies and other agencies over security issues on the rerun election  and  that  there  was  nothing wrong with that.