Rivers Guber: Many Would Die If I Contest Again
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Sunday said that many people would have died if the Supreme Court had nullified his victory at the State’s governorship election.
According to Wike while speaking during a thanksgiving service to celebrate his victory, the Supreme Court prevented bloodshed in the State.
“Blood would have flown if the election was going to hold again. So, I called some people, including the chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, that I was not going to run again. They said why and I explained that if I did, many people would die.
“I pray that my enemy should continue to have permanent high blood pressure. I wouldn’t pray that God will heal them. My own has come down now, and for several months it was high. It is time for their own to rise”, he said.
Wike further affirmed that he was not in support of President Muhammadu Buhari anti-corruption crusade. He explained that he would rather fight corruption his own way than support Buhari’s anti-corruption war.
He stressed that Buhari’s anti-corruption war was selective and targeted at members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He said: “We would not support the fight against corruption. People took our money from the state, and we wrote to the police asking them to go and make a statement; nothing has come out of it.
“We won’t take anybody to the EFCC because I know what would happen. We know how to fight our own way. We won’t support that war against corruption that they are doing”.