Tag: Governor Wike

Of course, Governor Wike has to be afraid, because he can never forget that he won NO election in 2015.

While we hold on to the piece of evidence that we have, it is no longer in doubt that underhand dealings took place in the acquisition of Keystone Bank and 9Mobile. The roles played by the Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) and the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), both agencies of government have been widely reported and not controverted. The days of playing the ostrich by the presidency are over. No more hiding for them” – Atiku Abubakar insinuating Buhari is corrupt.

“Atiku is merely doing everything humanly possible to draw Buhari into co-tenancy in his lootocracy and thievery tag. It took PMB the width and breadth of his life to build his integrity tag and won’t be easy for Atiku to just wish it away with this his desperate propagation of lies” – Uche Okechukwu on Face book.

More than at any other time in the history of elections in this country, we see on a daily basis, a party which has turned lies into the very adrenalin that drives its election campaign. The nearer the February 16, 2019 gets, the more has become PDP’s measurable stress and unease; the more too has become their lying frenzy. What Ologbodiyan fails to lie about in Abuja, Governor Onyesom Wike effortlessly takes up in Port Harcourt, dreaming, seeing APC rigging election everywhere, perhaps even in his bedroom. We demonstrated above that not even the PDP presidential candidate, our one-time vice president, Atiku Abubakar, is immune to these lying predilections when it suits him. We show below, snippets of Governor Wike’s mid day dreams as captured by some newspapers:

(Leadership, December 2018)

“Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government working in liaison with security agencies plan to disrupt 2019 governorship elections in Rivers and Akwa Ibom States. He stated that the motive is to mobilise the Federal Government’s alleged rigging security apparatus from all other states to the two states on a later date for the manipulation of the two strategic governorship elections. Wike, who spoke when the Netherlands Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Robert Petri, visited him at Government House, Port Harcourt, urged the European Union to pay closer attention to the two elections”.

Earlier he has been quoted as follows by the Daily Post: “Governor Wike declared that the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the amended Electoral Act is part of the plot to rig the 2019 elections. According to him, the plot of the APC-led Federal Government was basically to write results against the wishes of Nigerians, boasting that the APC and the security agencies will not succeed in rigging the elections in Rivers State.”

He went on to explain that intelligence at the disposal of the Rivers State Government indicated that SARS Commander, Akin Fakorede – the very man who had been thwarting his electoral  illegalities – and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Stephen Hasso, featured prominently in the rigging plot of the APC federal government in the state”.

Of course, Governor Wike has to be afraid, because he can never forget that he won NO election in 2015. What Madam Patience could not do, her husband – President Jonathan did for him. Lest they think we are like them, spreading fake news, let us quote, at some length, how the Premium Times of 11 April, 2015 captured that event: “The Nigerian presidency has overruled the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, and has ordered the immediate redeployment of Tunde Ogunsakin, an Assistant Inspector General of Police, out of Rivers State, for allegedly failing to do the bidding of the Peoples Democratic Party. The Nigeria Police had on Thursday deployed senior police officers to oversee governorship and state assembly elections in states considered as the likely flash-points on Saturday. Mr. Ogunsakin, a former police commissioner in the state, and currently AIG in charge of Zone 6, headquartered in Calabar, was asked to return to Rivers to oversee police deployment for the election there.

On arrival, he ordered investigations into reports that PDP supporters were thump-printing ballot papers in some locations in the city. He also ordered that some thugs being positioned to foment trouble be restrained.” He rebuffed all entreaties by the presidency to work for the PDP candidate, Nyesom Wike, in the election”. That was the point at which President Jonathan ordered him out of the state. The rest, as they say, is history.

Other things that gave Wike ‘victory’ included a fraudulent use of incident forms, extensive deployment of thugs, followed by these Rivers state politicians’ very ‘good understanding’ of Nigerian courts where they always lay in wait at the apex level to make their move.

After Governor Wike is their lying machine, the aspiring modern day Paul Joseph Goebbels (Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany 1933 – 1945), their spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, to whom not even their own Olisa Metuh, of a better forgotten era, would hold the candle in manufacturing fake news. With his ranting, each time changing what form his alleged APC’s rigging would take. You’d wonder if this man went to school or ever heard of Logic or logical reasoning. He jumps to conclusions from very incorrect premises you know immediately that syllogism is Greek to him. In none of those his asinine pronouncements would he miss out saying majority of Nigerians have rejected Buhari and adopted Atiku as if he is on a permanent opinion poll. He once claimed that the adoption of indirect primaries by the APC was Buhari’s new rigging option for the 2019 election. The above is symptomatic of his obtuse effusions and for maximum effect. As if by rote, he will always call on  the international community to intervene to stop his jejune, so-called APC rigging plans. As I once wrote on these pages, that this gentle man is PDP’s spokesperson says so much about how low the party has sunk since 2015.

There are also some fringe players in their lies which, if you ask me, I think  are the result of their Dubai pilgrimages where they must have spent quite some time with the successors to Cambridge Analytica. That was the company this selfsame PDP paid handsomely to dig dirt on the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari. To differentiate us from these purveyors of fake news, we again quote from Guardian.com: “At the heart of it all – data analytics company, SCL – the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. It had been hired by a rich Nigerian who supported the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan. “It was the kind of campaign that was our bread and butter,” says one ex-employee. “We’re employed by a billionaire who’s panicking at the idea of a change of government and who wants to spend big to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

Weaponising information to harm an opponent is their standard methodology and I won’t be surprised if this Dubai today, Dubai tomorrow is not for that purpose.

Among the fringe players is another Dubai pilgrim and very good friend of AMCON who, in his own case, fantasies about an electronic voting machine somewhere, at the touch of which, Buhari would have been successfully rigged in by INEC. Never knew we had such a simple minded senator.

DIFFERENT STROKES

Nothing will demonstrate the difference between APC and PDP more than their approach to campaign financing.. While President Muhammadu Buhari has said severally that he would not approve public funds for the campaign, PDP chieftains have been bellyaching everywhere, and to whoever would listen, about how Buhari is not allowing campaign money to roll this time around. Said the President: “Try and use texts and multi media messages to seek votes for the party and government. There is no money from the treasury for use in the campaigns. I will not authorise that”. But not our friends. They accused Buhari of frightening financial institutions – many of which are themselves weak –  but  that won’t matter since they characteristically kill off banks. Accusing Buhari of intolerance for not allowing them run down banks, they said:” the atmosphere does not allow what people are used to. Activities are not buzzing as we usually witnessed in the past. The funding environment has changed. The government is hounding financial institutions funding campaigns. Business communities that are donating to campaigns are being scared away.” Yet the wailers cry they can’t see change.

All that these people who shout all over the place about poverty and unemployment to deceive us care about is money, money and more money. Those that spirited away billions of naira from the Paris loan refund can never have enough.