Wike is playing games with Benue herdsmen-farmers’ clashes - APC blasts governor for giving out N200m to Ortom

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- The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it is disheartening that while residents of Rivers are mourning, Governor Wike went to Benue to commiserate with Ortom

- The party argues that Wike is wasting funds belonging to Rivers state in the guise of trying to claim being the leader of the PDP

- APC believes Wike donated N200 million to Ortom to score cheap political goals

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state has expressed shock that while many residents of Rivers state have continued to mourn recent killings of their loved ones, Governor Nyesom Wike donated N200 million to Samuel Ortom of Benue.

In a statement by its publicity secretary, Chris Finebone, and obtained by NAIJ.com, the party said as lofty as the gesture seems, what the governor has only succeeded in doing is classical and wanton display of primitive hypocrisy of the worst type.

“We recall that beyond highly politicised, self-serving and half-hearted visits to Omoku recently, Governor Nyesom Wike has completely ignored killings in various parts of Rivers state especially in the local government area of his PDP national chairman - Andoni.

“The governor has neither mentioned nor visited Ajakajak and other Andoni villages where several persons have been gruesomely killed up till January, 2017. Why has the governor not gone to visit victims of killings in Rivers state and donate to their welfare but chose to travel to distant Benue state to display crass duplicity?

“Quite disappointing to the APC is that some prominent Rivers indigenes (some of whose people are being killed here in the state) joined the governor to Benue state and even prayed at the graveside of the victims while their own people are being killed in Rivers without any intervention by Governor Wike and his government.

“We believe that the only purpose for the governor’s ego trip to Benue state is mainly to score cheap and pedestrian political points that have no value whatsoever to Rivers people.

“He is only working in line with his belief that he is the de facto leader of PDP. Our people consider the current doling out of N200 million of Rivers money as part of the billions Governor Nyesom Wike is spending to sustain and exercise control over his political party - the PDP.

“The APC calls on well-meaning Rivers elders and opinion leaders to prevail on Governor Nyesom Wike to refrain from playing Robinhood with Rivers money.

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“He should use the commonwealth of Rivers people to give the people meaningful development and not the brick and mortar roundabouts and superficial so-called projects he is deceiving the people with,” the statement said.

NAIJ.com earlier reported that Governor Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, February 7, donated N200 million to the Benue government for the upkeep of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state.

Wike made the donation when he led other stakeholders in Rivers on a condolence visit to Governor Samuel Ortom in Makurdi.

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