THE governorship candidate of the All
Progressives Congress in the 2015 election in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku
Peterside, said on Tuesday that the state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike,
had foreknowledge of the Supreme Court ruling before it was eventually
delivered.
Peterside also accused Wike of promoting violence by making inciting comments.
He also claimed that while the Supreme
Court ruling in favour of Wike was delivered at about 6.20pm, the
Peoples Democratic Party and Wike’s supporters went into wild
celebration around 9am.
The former APC governorship candidate,
who made this remarks while speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt,
explained that “credible information confirmed” that Wike confessed to
some persons that he (Wike) met with some of the justices of the Supreme
Court in Mbaise, Owerri, Dubai and Saudi Arabia respectively.
Peterside added that the governor had at
a thanksgiving service in Port Harcourt claimed that a former governor
of the state, Dr. Peter Odili and his wife, Justice Mary Odili, were his
(Wike) advisers.
He described the ruling of the Supreme
Court on the Rivers governorship election as a product of compromise and
an orchestrated contrivance to legalise electoral violence and rigging.