Rivers State governor, Chief Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike has stated that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government planted media reports of insecurity against the state because of their plot to de-market the state for political reasons.
The governor also said the APC-led government has over the last two years denied the people their basic rights, while deliberately destroying the judiciary in their quest to politically intimidate opponents.
Wike spoke when the governing council of the African Bar Association (ABA) paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Port Harcourt.
He regretted that the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) failed the people at the most important time, as the association refused to protect judges who were illegally harassed.
The governor charged the African Bar Association to take up the role of advocacy on behalf of the Nigerian people, the way it intervened in Gambia and Burundi.
Wike said, “The NBA has sold out. At the time the people needed the NBA to stand with them, the NBA withdrew. We have given the EFCC and the federal government the opportunity to intimidate the judiciary with frivolous petitions and prosecution.”
He called on Nigerians to rise up before the APC destroys the judiciary, saying that the ultimate aim of the APC is to create the atmosphere for them to rig the 2019 general elections.