Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, is alleging there is a sinister plot to have him framed and arrested outside the shores of Nigeria.
\nIn a statement by his spokesmanSimeon Nwakaudu, the Governor, known as a virulent critic of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government said: \u201cMy investigation reveals that the Federal government using her security agencies is planning to set me up anytime I am travelling outside the country. They plan to organise security to storm the hotel I am staying and say they found xyz cash in my possession; after which they would say I was arrested for currency trafficking or whatever offences outside the country.
\n\u201cThey will then precipitate crisis in my state and other parts of Nigeria. They will plan demonstrations to demonize me and claim I have gone outside to embarrass the country. The public odium is meant to smear me before my people and other Nigerians. It is unfortunate, wicked and unfair.
\n\u201cWhat they plan is similar to what was once done to the late Chief DSP Alamieseigha. They are planning what they call the \u2018Alams treatment\u2019 for me. But, by the grace of Almighty God, they will fail.\u201d
\n\u201cI am using this opportunity to alert the world of the sinister plot. I am a law-abiding citizen of this country and countries I visit in the course of my work or holidays. I have never dabbled into anything illegal. So, any attempt to frame me up on trumped up charges or alleged offences is bound to fail.\u201d
\n\u201cWhat they are doing is just cheap politics. They want to intimidate the opposition into silence as they are already doing with their so-called \u2018looters\u2019 list\u2019. It won\u2019t work. We can\u2019t all be intimidated. What we expect government at the centre to do is to showcase to the people their lists of achievements; why they should get a second chance. But they have nothing to show; so they are embarking on intimidation and arm-twisting tactics of the opposition.\u201d
\nThe federal government is yet to react to Wife’s allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, is alleging there is a sinister plot to have him framed and arrested outside the shores of Nigeria. In a statement by his spokesmanSimeon Nwakaudu, the Governor, known as a virulent critic of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government said: \u201cMy investigation reveals that the Federal government using her security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}