Police Beef Up Security As Calm Pregnant With Tension Takes Over Rivers State Over Tribunal’s Kick Out Of Gov Nyesom Wike

Information filtering in revealed that calm pregnant with tension has over Rivers state.

This development has root in Election Tribunal’s kick out of governor Nyesom Wike via nullification of the process that brought him to power.

Though the embattled governor has decided to appeal the decision, sources claim the judgement which ordered a fresh election within 90days has greatly buoyed the confidence of the opposition – while the party in power is dejected. Gov Nyesom Wike

The conflicts in the mood of the two sides are said to be creating tension, but the police command insists it is up to the situation.
Security presence over state is said to have been beefed up.

The Nation reports in the unravelling scenario in full ‘An uneasy calm descended on Rivers State yesterday as news filtered in from Abuja about the nullification of the April election of Mr. Nyesom Wike of the PDP as governor of the state.

The Justice Mohammed Ambrosa-led election petitions tribunal ordered a fresh election within 90 days.

The PDP and Wike have decided to contest the decision at the Court of Appeal.

The news sparked wild jubilations among All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders and their supporters especially in Port Harcourt.

They began shouting ‘Change’, the party’s slogan in the last elections.

In no time hundreds of them had massed at the party’s governorship candidate’s Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside’s Greater Together Campaign Organisation’s office on Forces Avenue, old Government Reservation Area (GRA) in the state capital for celebration.

Members of the PDP also had their own celebration, taking consolation in the fact that Wike will remain governor for now having decided to appeal over the tribunal’s verdict.

The police beefed up security around the state to ensure that the prevailing peace was not breached.

The spokesperson of the command, Grace Iringe-Koko, said in Port Harcourt that all was calm in the state.

“We have not recorded any incidents and the state is calm. Police is on top of the situation,” she said.

Mr. Wike who had apparently planned a triumphant return to Port Harcourt from Abuja if the verdict had gone in his favour flew home last night all the same, vowing never to cave in to what he called ungodly political gang-up against him in Abuja.

He likened yesterday’s judgement to a lower court overruling a superior court which is unknown to law.

Addressing his supporters who thronged the Port Harcourt International Airport to welcome him back from Abuja, Wike urged them to remain peaceful as the tribunal’s judgment was simply the verdict of man which will give way to God’s verdict.

He said though by his training he is not expected to criticise a judge, the State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal’s judgement negated earlier ones given by the same tribunal wherein it upheld his election in petitions filed by the Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party, only to make ’