Rivers State's Governor alleges plans to arrest him abroad as happened to Alamieyeseigha in London

RIVERS State governor Nyesom Wike has raised an alarm over a purported plot by the federal government to frame him up by planting illegal items on him and arresting him while on a trip abroad.

 

A fierce critic of the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Wike is one of the leading figures in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). he said he now fears that as a result, the ruling All progressives Party (APC), will seek to have him arrested while on a foreign trip, as happened to former Bayelsa State governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, who was apprehended in London in 2012.

 

Governor Wike said: My investigation reveals that the federal government, using her security agencies, is planning to set me up anytime I travel outside the country. They plan to organise security to storm the hotel I am staying and say they found xyz cash in my possession, after which they would say I was arrested for currency trafficking or whatever offences outside the country.

 

“They will then precipitate a crisis in my state and other parts of Nigeria. They will plan demonstrations to demonise me and claim I have gone outside to embarrass the country and the public odium is meant to smear me before my people and other Nigerians."

 

Calling it an unfortunate, wicked and unfair, Governor Wike said what they plan is similar to what was once done to the late Chief Alamieseigha. Governor Wike said that although he was neither scared nor disturbed over the plot, he felt the need to alert the nation and the world to the evil and dangerous dimension politics had degenerated in the country.

 

“I am using this opportunity to alert the world of the sinister plot. I am a law-abiding citizen of this country and countries I visit in the course of my work or holidays and I have never dabbled into anything illegal, so, any attempt to frame me up on trumped-up charges or alleged offences is bound to fail.

 

“What they are doing is just cheap politics. They want to intimidate the opposition into silence as they are already doing with their so-called looters' list but it won't work as we can't all be intimidated," Governor Wike added.

 

Meanwhile, former Rivers State governor and current transport minister Rotimi Amaechi has predicted that Governor Wike will not be re-elected next year. He added that the Rivers State people will put an end to what he termed Governor Wike’s poor performance, bad governance and misrule at the elections.

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