Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Rivers South-East Senatorial District re-run election has accused Nyesom Wike of training a private army of hoodlums ahead of the election.
Speaking at Wave FM 91.7 news and current affairs programme tagged: “Crux of the Matter”, Abe said that the criticism against the presence of Nigerian Army in the District and other parts of Rivers State by the governor and the PDP was to ensure that the Army withdraw for his private army to take over and give cover to the manipulation of the March 19 re-run election.
According to him, “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 Gov. 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 to deserve the kind of blackmail that is going on.”
Abe further claimed that the security situation at Bori was pathetic to the extent that market women could hardly withdraw money from the bank without hoodlums attacking and dispossessing them of their life savings.
“If you go to Bori today, a lot of the women who sell in the market don’t even use the banks in Bori. In a minute or two, people are after you with guns to collect your money. The entire area has been rendered unsafe by criminals affiliated to ex-militant, Solomon Ndigbara,” he said. .
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