Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation has commended Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for defending his people during the just concluded presidential election.
The presidential election in Rivers was on Saturday marred in some local government areas with electoral violence, ballot box snatching, among others.
There were unconfirmed reports that soldiers reportedly killed some residents in Abonnema LGA during the election, while others were severely injured.
Fani-Kayode speaking on the development in Rivers applauded Wike for condemning the situation and fighting for his people.
The former minister added that some PDP members were arrested and paraded by soldiers in Rivers because they ‘objected to slaughtering of their people’
Fani-Kayode on his Twitter page wrote: “There is one man that has stood by his people through these trying times it is Nyesom Wike.
“Soldiers murdered 39 innocent and defenceless Nigerians, including women and children, in his Abonnema LGA alone in the last few days.I salute him and I commend his strength and courage.
“I commend his strength and courage for resisting this great evil and for calling those that perpetuated it to account.
“To those that sent soldiers to arrest his Commissioner and other leaders of the PDP in his state and paraded them before the television cameras like common criminals simply because they objected to the slaughter of their people, I say your time is short.
“Today may belong to you but tomorrow belongs to us. In the fullness of time, the Lord will show Himself mighty and He will avenge the good people of Rivers state.”
Meanwhile, Nigerian Army on Tuesday arrested over 13 persons for alleged illegal possession of ballot papers and bribe-taking during Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Rivers.
Among those arrested were Rivers Commissioner for Urban Development, Dr. Reason Williams and Mr. Opokri Wanaka, a serving member in the Rivers State House of Assembly.
The Army said that Williams and Wanaka were arrested for attempting to induce troops stationed in Akinima Area of Rivers to rig the election in favour of an unnamed political party in the state.
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