One of the governorship aspirants for Rivers State, Farah Dagogo, who was declared wanted yesterday by the State Governor, Nyesom Wike has sounded out a cry to the general public asking them to hold the Governor responsible if any harm falls on him.
Farah Dagogo, who is a well known member of the House of Representatives, was declared wanted by Governor Nyesom Wike on the allegations that he hired “cultists” to disrupt the screening of aspirants at the State party secretariat in Port Harcourt.
In a statement issued on Thursday by his media aide, Ibrahim Lawal, the lawmaker accused the Governor of lying against him.
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He made it clear that he was never at the party secretariat for that particular screening session as he is a governorship aspirant and not a State House of Assembly or House of Representatives aspirant whose screening was actually scheduled for Wednesday at the party secretariat.
In his words: “around 3pm, some of the aspirants were uncomfortable that as at that time, the screening committee had not come for the purpose they were meant for.
“They held a Press briefing at the front of the Party Secretariat and alleged of ploy not to screen them and another to disqualify them by the absent Screening Committee.
“After the Press briefing that went viral on both conventional and social media, the screening committee came to the venue to start the process late in the evening for an exercise that was supposed to start in the morning hours.
“After a while, the Camp Commandant to the Governor, Efeturi Irikefe, who was at the venue with retinue of police officers, tried to disrupt the process by shooting indiscriminately to scare supporters of the aspirants outside the venue.”
Farah Dagogo also called on the Rivers State commissioner of police to arrest and investigate the activities of Efeturi Irikefe who is the Camp Commandant to the Governor at the Party’s Secretariat yesterday.
“If any incident should befall Hon. Doctor Farah Dagogo, the Governor of Rivers State and his agent should be held responsible,” he said.
The Lawmaker also made clear accusations of the Governor of attempts to blackmail him ahead of the screening of the Rivers State governorship aspirants of the party on Thursday while adding that the governor’s actions clearly violates sections 14 and 33 of the 1999 constitution.
He ended by saying that he will be willing to attend any police invitation which must come after the screening exercise.
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