The Atiku Solution, a campaign support group working for the victory of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called on the party to take a decisive action on Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike.

Speaking in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, on Saturday, the Deputy Chairman, The Atiku Solution (TAS), Mr Christopher Abarowei, said the party is supreme hence Wike should respect the party, its leadership and right of other persons.

Abarowei, who is also a member of the Elders’ Council of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), therefore urged the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP to act immediately and caution Wike either persuasively or wield the punitive stick of sanction on him either by suspension or expulsion from the PDP.

He condemned in strong terms the attack on the Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Committee in Rivers State, Dr Abiye Sekibo, and the destruction of equipment used to prepare the venue for the PDP Presidential rally slated for February 14, 2023.

He said the shocking revelation by Sekibo to the fact that Police officers attached to the governor allegedly led the attack was crude, irresponsible and unacceptable.

He advised that the allegation by Sekibo should be viewed seriously by the Police authorities against the backdrop that similar accusations were made against Police officers in the past by then Governor Rotimi Amaechi.

“The Police authorities should with utmost diligence live up to their responsibility by either cautioning the officers or outrightly transfer them out of the state as their neutrality in the discharge of their duties as persons paid with taxpayers money cannot be guaranteed before, during and even after the approaching elections,” he stated.

Abarowei further said it was an embarrassment to the peace-loving people of Rivers State seeing their governor allegedly condescending so low to encourage intolerance, thuggery, and wanton destruction of properties legitimately acquired by fellow Rivers people who had helped him in his ascendency to the exalted position of the governor.

Abarowei stated: “It is not a secret any longer to all and sundry that Governor Wike has made up his mind to support a presidential candidate outside the PDP even though he has not been man enough to do so, we challenge him to do it.

“There is freedom of association in the Nigerian Constitution and all eligible voters have and enjoy the right of choice of who to support and nobody has the right to stop anyone no matter how highly placed.

“The fact that the PDP PCC rejected the ‘reapproval’ of the Adokiye Amaseimeka Stadium should be seen as a right just as Wike approved, disapproved, and consequently ‘approved’ the usage of the same facility.

“What is the guarantee that fifth columnists planted by him or any other persons might not carry out violent attacks on the facility to place the blame at the doorsteps of the Presidential Campaign Committee and the imaginary opposition faction?” (The Nation)

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