PDP Won’t Allow Any Post-Election Drama From APC Like In 2015 – Wike

Governor Nyesom Wike has come out to describe the face-off between PDP and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state as nothing that is abnormal.

He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, PDP is simply being on alert to avoid a recurrence of an incident in the aftermath of the 2015 elections, so vigilance is to be expected now.

Wike added that PDP had problems they never believed after the 2015 polls, and that must be avoided this time around.

His words, “Vigilant in the sense that during the 2015 [post-election period] precisely, after the elections, after the nomination, we had problems that we never believed, and so we didn’t want a recurrence of that at the tribunal.”

On police tendering original results at the tribunal, instead of CTCs of the original, “Everybody was shocked: ‘How would the police tender original results?’ And INEC had their own certified true copies. INEC tendered their own.”

“To our greatest surprise, the court accepted the police’s original results. It was surprising to us, down to the Court of Appeal and we have seen this happen several times. Remember what happened in Imo State.”

“And we now said to INEC, ‘We will know whether what you’re giving to us is what you’re giving to these parties. Note all the parties and sign for it, so we’ll know that you’re giving exactly the same you have given to these people.”

“But we don’t want what happened last time to reoccur. You can’t have two Michaels at the same time. So, all these things you are hearing that the APC is shouting is because they know that game they played the last time, we will not allow it to happen again.”