The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the Rivers South East senatorial district, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has accused Governor Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike of keeping a private army of hoodlums to further his political interest in the senatorial district.
Abe, who is the former chairman, Senate committee on petroleum (downstream), spoke yesterday during a news and current affairs programme of a private radio station, monitored in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
He alleged that the criticism against the presence of Nigerian Army in the Rivers South East senatorial district and other parts of state by Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was to ensure that the army withdraws for his private
army to take over and give cover to the manipulation of the March 19, 2016 re-run election.
The APC chieftain said: “There are two armies in Rivers State as we speak. There is the Nigerian Army that is under the command of President Muhammed Buhari and then there is an army of gangsters and criminals that is commanded by Governor Wike.
“So, all these noise you are hearing are blackmail against the Nigerian Army. It is just designed to blackmail the Army into withdrawing from the March 19 elections so that their own army can operate the way they operated the last time. There is nothing else that the army has done.’’
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