Politically motivated killings in Rivers: Governor Wike reacts
– Governor Nyesom Wike dismissed allegations that recent killings in Rivers state have been politically motivated
– According to him, the killings are clashes of rival cult groups fighting for supremacy
Governor Wike is swearing in Justice Iyayi Lamikanra as the substantive chief judge of the state.
Governor Nyesom Wike has dismissed allegations that recent killings in Rivers state have been politically motivated and targeted at members of the All Progressives Congress.
PM News reports that the governor made a statement while swearing in Justice Iyayi Lamikanra as the substantive chief judge of the state.
According to Wike, the recent killings are clashes of rival cult groups fighting for supremacy. He assured people of the state that the clashes have nothing to do with politics ahead of the rerun election scheduled for March 19.
“When politicians perceive a threat and they want to act, they will not say let’s eliminate him. If that happens, you will not ask if it was a politically motivated killing, you will know it is a political killing.
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“Not when cultists die from a feud, then some people will start shouting that they are killing their party’s members.
“Have you asked yourself why no known politician has been killed or even a known person? Why? Does it not tell you something? When you shed other people’s blood, one day you will also die that way.
“Go to Omoku, all I hear is Icelanders, Greenlanders, all of them are ‘Landers’,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has also reacted to killings in Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area of Rivers state, which saw the gruesome murder of Franklin Nkukuru Obi, his wife and son.
Felix Obuah, the state chairman of the PDP, described the resurgence of killings among his kinsmen as abominable and sheer madness. He called on politicians to join hands with Governor Wike to keep the state peaceful and secure from the hands of criminals, rather than trading blames and politicking with insecurity of any kind in the state.
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