Police Chief Ibrahim Idris has ordered a probe into the Saturday
clash between security detail of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike
and those of Minister of Transportation Chibuile Amaechi in Port
Harcourt.
Although nobody died during the clash, many were injured and the
rifle of a policeman was snatched at the Trans-Amadi Layout.
Both Wike and Amaechi, who are former allies, claim thay escaped
assassination.
Rivers Police Command spokesman Nnamdi Omoni, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP), confirmed that a probe had been
launched into the incident and the involvement of policemen. He did
not give details.
The state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) called
for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Wike’s Chief Security
Officer (CSO), Promise Wosu, a Superintendent of Police (SP), and
other security personnel who were involved in the bloody clash.
In a statement by its Chairman Chief Davies Ikanya, made
available by his media adviser Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the APC said:
“Reports made available to us by Prince Tonye Princewill, an
associate to Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who was in the same
car with the Minister of Transportation, indicated that Wike’s
dispatch rider pulled a pistol to assassinate Amaechi, but missed
his target, after which Amaechi’s Aide-de-Camp (ADC), Mr.
Seimeikumo Debewari, intervened to save the minister from further
assassination attempt.
“Prince Princewill stated that he was at a loss if the attack
was not an assassination attempt on the Transportation Minister,
somebody should explain to him in a clearer sentence why Wike’s
despatch rider failed to stop the two security vehicles of the
minister, which had already crossed, but decided for whatever
reasons, to block the vehicle in which the minister was
driving.
“Prince Princewill also asked why the attempt by Amaechi, who
was driving the car, to navigate his vehicle out of danger was
prevented by two security men from Rivers governor’s convoy, who
pulled their pistols to shoot him, but when Wike’s security men
realised that the vehicle that the minister was driving was
bullet-proofed, they resorted to hitting the jeep with the butts of
their guns and in the process broke the right driving mirror and
attempted to break Amaechi’s windscreen.
“After the failed attempt to kill the Transportation Minister,
his escort team was physically assaulted by Wike’s CSO and Rivers
governor, with the operatives of Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad
(F-SARS) on the minister’s convoy dislodged and forcibly
dispossessed of one of their AK-47 rifles.”
Rivers APC also stated that the dangerous trend, if not nipped
in the bud, might jeopardise the peace pervading the Niger
Delta.
It reiterated that Wike’s main desire was to truncate Nigeria’s
hard-earned democracy, after the failed plot by the then ruling
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to win the 2015 presidential
election, stressing that the Rivers governor’s disdain for
President Muhammadu Buhari, APC and Amaechi was legendary.
The opposition party said: “Wike recently exhibited hatred for
Buhari’s administration during his misguided lecture at Chatham
House, London, where he disparaged the Federal Government,
demarketed and rubbished all the efforts of the APC-led Federal
Government to right most of the wrongs of the past PDP government
in a foreign land.
“Wike should not be allowed to turn Rivers State into a theatre
of unwarranted war, only obtainable during the Sir Celestine
Omehia’s era, when Port Harcourt was rated as the riskiest place in
the world.”
Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications
Emma Okah described as wishful thinking, the call for the immediate
arrest and prosecution of Governor Wike’s Chief Security Officer
(CSO). Promise Wosu, a Superintendent of Police (SP), and other
security personnel.
Okah, said: “The call for the arrest and prosecution of Wike’s
CSO lacks merit, it is mere wishful thinking and it should be
disregarded.
“If APC chairman is calling for arrest and prosecution of Wike’s
CSO, what do we do to the policemen that attacked the Rivers
governor’s escort rider? Do we also call for their arrest and
prosecution?”
Okah also stated that there should be no double standard in
order to ensure justice.
Police Chief Ibrahim Idris has ordered a probe into the Saturday
clash between security detail of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike
and those of Minister of Transportation Chibuile Amaechi in Port
Harcourt.
Although nobody died during the clash, many were injured and the
rifle of a policeman was snatched at the Trans-Amadi Layout.
Both Wike and Amaechi, who are former allies, claim thay escaped
assassination.
Rivers Police Command spokesman Nnamdi Omoni, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP), confirmed that a probe had been
launched into the incident and the involvement of policemen. He did
not give details.
The state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) called
for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Wike’s Chief Security
Officer (CSO), Promise Wosu, a Superintendent of Police (SP), and
other security personnel who were involved in the bloody clash.
In a statement by its Chairman Chief Davies Ikanya, made
available by his media adviser Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the APC said:
“Reports made available to us by Prince Tonye Princewill, an
associate to Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who was in the same
car with the Minister of Transportation, indicated that Wike’s
dispatch rider pulled a pistol to assassinate Amaechi, but missed
his target, after which Amaechi’s Aide-de-Camp (ADC), Mr.
Seimeikumo Debewari, intervened to save the minister from further
assassination attempt.
“Prince Princewill stated that he was at a loss if the attack
was not an assassination attempt on the Transportation Minister,
somebody should explain to him in a clearer sentence why Wike’s
despatch rider failed to stop the two security vehicles of the
minister, which had already crossed, but decided for whatever
reasons, to block the vehicle in which the minister was
driving.
“Prince Princewill also asked why the attempt by Amaechi, who
was driving the car, to navigate his vehicle out of danger was
prevented by two security men from Rivers governor’s convoy, who
pulled their pistols to shoot him, but when Wike’s security men
realised that the vehicle that the minister was driving was
bullet-proofed, they resorted to hitting the jeep with the butts of
their guns and in the process broke the right driving mirror and
attempted to break Amaechi’s windscreen.
“After the failed attempt to kill the Transportation Minister,
his escort team was physically assaulted by Wike’s CSO and Rivers
governor, with the operatives of Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad
(F-SARS) on the minister’s convoy dislodged and forcibly
dispossessed of one of their AK-47 rifles.”
Rivers APC also stated that the dangerous trend, if not nipped
in the bud, might jeopardise the peace pervading the Niger
Delta.
It reiterated that Wike’s main desire was to truncate Nigeria’s
hard-earned democracy, after the failed plot by the then ruling
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to win the 2015 presidential
election, stressing that the Rivers governor’s disdain for
President Muhammadu Buhari, APC and Amaechi was legendary.
The opposition party said: “Wike recently exhibited hatred for
Buhari’s administration during his misguided lecture at Chatham
House, London, where he disparaged the Federal Government,
demarketed and rubbished all the efforts of the APC-led Federal
Government to right most of the wrongs of the past PDP government
in a foreign land.
“Wike should not be allowed to turn Rivers State into a theatre
of unwarranted war, only obtainable during the Sir Celestine
Omehia’s era, when Port Harcourt was rated as the riskiest place in
the world.”
Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications
Emma Okah described as wishful thinking, the call for the immediate
arrest and prosecution of Governor Wike’s Chief Security Officer
(CSO). Promise Wosu, a Superintendent of Police (SP), and other
security personnel.
Okah, said: “The call for the arrest and prosecution of Wike’s
CSO lacks merit, it is mere wishful thinking and it should be
disregarded.
“If APC chairman is calling for arrest and prosecution of Wike’s
CSO, what do we do to the policemen that attacked the Rivers
governor’s escort rider? Do we also call for their arrest and
prosecution?”
Okah also stated that there should be no double standard in
order to ensure justice.
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