by Azubuike Azikiwe
We are a bit confused this morning…
Here we were thinking the center controlled the Police Force, but we may have been wrong all along.
Well, a conspiracy theory has been dispelled by the ruling party and we just don’t know what to believe anymore nowadays.
The Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers state is alleging that the All Progressives Congress is working with C4I, an arm of the Police in the state, to implicate the ruling party in trumped up criminal activities.
The Chairman, Media and Publicity of the PDP Campaign Organisation in the state, Emma Okah, says that the APC and C4I have made arrangements to first of all, release arms to some youth for criminal acts, then they would be subsequently arrested, and in the process, forced to implicate the governorship candidate of the party, Nyesom Wike, President Goodluck Jonathan and other chieftains of the party.
If you’re still interested, read below the allegation… and APC’s rebuttal.
“We have uncovered a heinous and shameful conspiracy by the said C4I and APC to arm some young men who would thereafter, be arrested while armed with the very weapons given to them by the C4I and APC. After their stage-managed arrest, false confessions would be obtained from them in consonance with the orchestrated plan to the effect that they were armed by the President and the governorship candidate of the PDP in Rivers State, Chief Wike, to commit sundry criminal acts including kidnap, armed robbery, and political assassinations.”
“As a means of suppressing evidence and concealing the false confession, the young men would thereafter be killed by the C4I through administering poisons on them. The C4I and their APC co-conspirators would then falsely allege that the President in concert with Wike and the PDP are responsible for the murder of the young men.”
“Prior to this time and just to mention one out of several cases, the C4I had attempted to abduct and possibly eliminate a member of the PDP in Rivers State, Mr Tonye Ayella. Mr. Ayella, who is the PDP’s candidate to represent Port Harcourt constituency 2 in Rivers State House of Assembly in the 2015 general elections, was saved from abduction and possible elimination by security men attached to Mr Evans Bipi, the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. This matter was reported to the Commissioner of Police, Rivers State Police Command, who has refused to investigate the issues.”
Meanwhile, the APC, says the allegations were laughable and ludicrous.
In a statement by its Publicity Secretary in the state, Chris Finebone, the party said: “For the APC, this is yet another contrivance from the deep box of propaganda of the PDP in Rivers State.”
“It simply flies in the face. While not speaking for any organ of state like the Police or any other security agency, the APC in Rivers State believes that it is unthinkable for any sane mind or group of sane individuals to imagine that the Nigeria Police or other security organisations would attempt what the PDP is charging. That can only be possible between the PDP and any unscrupulous federal agency.”
“The Rivers State chapter of the APC would like to urge the PDP to approach the various federal government controlled security agencies with the facts of its findings for proper investigation to ascertain the veracity of their claims.”
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