Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has called on President Bola Tinubu to direct a thorough investigation into the series of allegations of threats to life against the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Barrister Nyesom Wike.
Prince Secondus said this has become necessary following a series of such allegations against the Minister by several people.
He warned that bloodshed for the sake of politics in Rivers state must stop and called on all the relevant security agencies to do everything to respect the sanctity of life.
The former PDP boss was reacting to the recent threat-to-life allegations made against the Minister by the National Chairman of Zenith Labour Party, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, plus similar reports in the past on a member of the House of Representatives. Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere and former Minister of Transport Dr Abiye Sekibo.
He urged security agencies to carry out a thorough investigation on the matter to nip any dastardly act in the bud.
According to him, “action that would lead to the intimidation and cowing of persons with opposing views on issues must be discouraged in a democratic era”.
Chief Nwanyanwu had raised serious alarm on Tuesday following his press interview on the crisis in Rivers state where he chastised Bar Wike for undue interference, after which he alleged that a man he identified as Moses Emmanuel believed to be the Minister’s hatchet man confronted him at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja threatening to kill him.
According to Prince Secondus in a statement in Abuja “a good politician and a democrat should rely on his popularity, not on the use of coercion to achieve his aim”.
“If the former Governor now resorts to threats to life on everyone who has an opposing view to his own, it then means he has lost the people’s legitimacy and the earlier he realizes this the better for him”.
Prince Secondus said that the attitude of the former governor is unflattering and ugly-looking and recalled that he also recently threatened a serving Senator of the Federal Territory, Senator Ireti Kingibe for having an opposing view on the way he was running the affairs of her Senatorial zone.
Prince Secondus called on the President to rein in the Minister and put a check on his reckless and impetuous attitude before he brings huge embarrassment to the Federal administration.
