Stop blackmailing Amaechi, face police probe, Integrity group tells Wike
*Threatens legal action against defaming Amaechi
A Rights group operating under the aegis of Integrity Youth Alliance, IYA, has called on the governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, to stop diverting attention of Nigerians from the leaked audio threat he allegedly made against some of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, officials that conducted the December 10, legislative rerun election in the State.
The group said that Sahara Reporters, an online news platform ‘exposed’ Governor Nyesom Wike, and that ever since, the governor had been allegedly looking for ways to divert the attention of Nigerians and the international communities from his threat.
The group made these claims in a terse statement signed by its Secretary-General, Danjuma Lamida, and made available to the press in Port Harcourt, capital city of Rivers state.
In part the statement read: “It is on record that the same Governor Wike that claimed to introduce Amnesty by mopping up guns from cultists could not account for those guns which probably went back to his hatch men that killed several people including DSP Mohammed Alkali and his driver in Uju Forest of Rivers State.
“Governor Nyesom Wike in his usual manner has mobilized some jobless youths led by his SA Social Media and Lere Olayinka, SA Public Affairs to Governor Ayodele Fayose to shift the killings of DSP Mohammed Alkali and his driver on Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
“The Wike Hatch men are claiming on social media that one Kachi Nwokocha who is the sponsor of the killing during the Rivers Re-run is an aide of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi because he was a former Commissioner under the Amaechi administration.
“We find this so ridiculous of Wike because the same Wike was an aide of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi during his administration in Rivers State, so can we then say Wike who threatened to kill INEC official is an aide of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi up till now?” IYA asked.
The group, therefore, challenged Governor Nyesom Wike to prove to the World that Kachi Nwokocha was an aide of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi or face a legal action within 7 days for defamation of character of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
“We are aware that Wike paid agents have taken over the social media to blackmail Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and divert the attention of the security agencies from probing the audio message from Nyesom Wike,” it stated and called on the Inspector General Police, the D-G of DSS and the National Security Adviser to swiftly move into action to probe the killings during the rerun election and the alleged audio message of Governor Nyesom Wike to avoid the killing of innocent citizens and security agents in future.
