By: Admin
A group known as Niger Delta Freedom Volunteer Force (NDFVF), has blamed Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, for allegedly causing the defeat suffered by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the just concluded presidential election.
NDFVF, in a communiqué jointly signed by its President and Secretary, Harry Lawson and Preye Wilson at the end of an emergency meeting in Port Harcourt, Sunday, 3rd March, 2019 said that the failure of Atiku could be traced back to the party’s national convention where Wike allegedly hijacked the party’s structure and imposed his stooge, Prince Uche Secondus as National Chairman of the party.
The group alleged further that: “Wike and Secondus in their selfishness sold out the party in Kano state where they would have secured more votes, by insisting that former governor of the State, Rabiu Kwankwaso take fifty five percent (55%) of the state PDP exco.”
“This decision infuriated another former governor of the State, Ibrahim Shekarau and forced him out of the party to join the All Progressive Congress APC, where he delivered the state to President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC, producing the highest votes from all states in the country”.
They went on to say that, “Atiku simply lost because Wike and Secondus hijacked the party structure to themselves. Before the elections, former governor of Ogun state and Director General of Atiku’s presidential campaign, Otunba Gbenga Daniel was no where to be found close to him again. It was just impossible for PDP to have won”.
The freedom fighters warned Southerners to be wary of Wike and Seconds.
“South South must be wary of both Wike and Secondus because they don’t have the people at heart,”they said.
The group while congratulating President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the polls, urged Atiku, PDP and the entire South South to accept the outcome of the February 23rd presidential election and work with the president to move the country forward.
They also used the medium to condemn the violence that claimed several lives in the South South, especially Rivers State during the presidential and national assembly elections in the country.
The group however, called for a peaceful and credible governorship and state assembly elections in the region on Saturday, 9th March, 2019.
