Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has warned those said to be plotting to scuttle the February 25 and March 11 general elections to desist forthwith warning no form of ‘interim government will stand.
Wike was speaking at the Peoples Democratic Party PDP rally in Opobo on Saturday.
The governor said “Let nobody try to scuttle this election,” He warned against the lingering scarcity of the naira and fuel saying that urgent intervention was needed from President Muhammadu Buhari to address the issue.
Wike said the CBN cash policy has engineered anger and frustration nationwide but iurged his teeming supporters in the Local Government Area not to protest.
“This policy (naira redesign) is targeted at making people angry so that they will demonstrate and riot and then the election be postponed. Then, they will introduce an interim government,” he said.
“No matter the provocation, don’t protest,” Wike cautioned the people of the state. “This election will hold. This election is by the PVCs. This election is not an election of cabals; it is an election of Nigerians.”
Wike’s comment comes a day after Bola Tinubu, the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC alleged during his campaign in Ekiti of conspiracy to cause crisis that would lead to the disruption and postponement of the general elections scheduled to hold on February 25 and March 11.
Wike said those supporting the currency redesign and fuel scarcity amid the electioneering process are the real enemies of Nigeria.
“You said you want to remove the old currency but we have not seen the new ones. Can you buy fuel? Can you buy anything to eat again? Now, tell me, would you vote for anybody who loves Nigeria and is running for election, who supports this CBN policy?” he asked party supporters decked up in party paraphernalia, many of whom chorused “No”.
“Those supporting this kind of thing are enemies of Nigeria. I believe that they did not tell President Buhari the correct thing because me and the President are going the same time – May 29, the same time, nobody will stay one day more.
The governor, however, expressed hope that the President will do the right thing to ameliorate the pain of the people..
“So, I know the man will like to finish well and go and I won’t see what is bad and not advise him. Those plotting all these things are those who don’t like him. But I believe he will hear the cries of Nigerians,”
According to the governor, the policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is not to fight corruption but to inflict pain on the masses He queried “What corruption are you fighting when you have three months more?”
