Nyesom Wike, the Governor of Rivers State, has raised an alarm that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has laid out plans to flood the state with eight hundred (800) guns with the aim of destabilizing the peace currently existing in the state.
The Governor, who released a statement signed by Simeon Nwakaudu, his Special Assistant, said the Federal Government made the resolve to carry out the plot during the last security meeting and that he got the intelligence report from credible sources who had access to the plot against the state.
The Governor has now called on the international community to be aware of the evil plot of the APC Federal Government to create crisis in the state.
He regretted that the Federal Government has continued to work deliberately to compromise the security of the state.
“Wike urged the people of the state to remain calm, but vigilant,” he said, adding “that the evil machinations of the Federal Government will not distract the state from delivering on her constitutional responsibilities to Rivers people.”
Reacting, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has dismissed the allegation, describing it as a distraction and a figment of his (Wike’s)imagination.
The minister also posited that the governor may the making the allegation knowing that he was going to be voted out in the coming 2019 general election.
“This is a figment of Governor Wike’s imagination and a distraction. I guess the governor is already afraid that he will lose the next election. The Federal Government has no business planting guns anywhere. Perhaps the governor himself plans to plant the guns,” the minister said.
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