APC Asks Wike To Explain Who Did Odili Tell Him To Meet Before Supreme Court Judgment

“He (referring to former governor, Dr. Peter Odili) would call me at midnight to tell me what to do. He will say, ‘go to so, so place.’ I took all his advice and here we are today victorious.”
These were the quotes which the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state ascribed to governor Nyeson Wike of the state on the recent supreme court judgment which favoured him.
Governor Wike was said to have made the statement publicly at a Church Thanksgiving Service on 7th February.
The APC, which insisted that governor Wike should explain to the public whom Dr. Odili asked him to meet before the judgment, described such revelation as an indictment of the apex court.
The statement, signed by the APC state Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, said that Wike’s confession had ended the mystery about how he procured the shocking judgement considering that Dr. Odili’s wife, Mrs. Mary Odili, is a Justice of the Supreme Court.
“That Wike may have influenced the outcome of the judgement given by the Supreme Court for PDP in Rivers State was further exposed by PDP supporters, who started celebrating the judgement by 9am – almost ten hours before the incredulous judgement was delivered at 6.45pm on Wednesday, January 27, 2016.”
The APC regretted that Rivers people had by the judgement been denied the opportunity to vote for the governorship candidate of their choice simply because “to Wike, everything in this world, including every judgement, has a price tag.”
The party agreed with the position of the Head of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Committee, Professor Itse Sagay, who said that the reasons adduced by the Supreme Court for its judgement on the Rivers guber election are not convincing.
“According to the erudite Scholar in his reaction titled, ‘Wike Climbed into the Governorship Seat over Dead Bodies’: ‘Everybody knows that people like Wike climbed into the governorship seat over dead bodies and over the blood of human beings. There were no elections, they wrote the results; the evidence is there. “Sagay added that what the Supreme Court has done is to set the clock of electoral excellence and fairness and credibility back by. I do not want to say a thousand years, but certainly it is taking us back to where we were before (former INEC Chairman, Prof. Atahiru) Jega came in and sanitised the system.”
The Rivers APC expressed its conviction that the blood of its 100 members killed to install Wike as Rivers State Governor will one day touch the minds of the Supreme Court Justices and make them to give correct judgements that will save Nigeria from the shame in the international community occasioned by this unjust judgement. [myad]