The Greater Together Campaign Organisation has
described the threat by Nyesom Wike, Peoples Democratic Party governorship
candidate in Rivers State to make public the financial dealings of All
progressives Congress governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside as empty.
This, the organisation noted, is another calculated
smear campaign option of the PDP that will fail like the several attempts on
Dr. Peterside's life. “Ordinarily, we would have ignored this spurious threat
on our candidate but for the misleading impact it could create on the public;
Dr. Peterside in all his public life has acted with integrity and fear of God”,
it said.
The
organisation disclosed that Dr. Peterside will never employ blackmail as a
strategy; emphasising that such threat would not affect or distract its
candidate's plans and commitment towards achieving victory at the April 11th
governorship election.
In statement issued in Port Harcourt, the organisation
said it fully appreciates the dilemma of the PDP candidate who faces imminent
defeat based on political realities on ground.
“Wike is already aware of failure, and he is
struggling desperately to wriggle out of it. But this reality should not
warrant cheap blackmail, threats and falsehood as a means of survival. One
would have expected the PDP candidate to device other ways.
“As an organisation, our actions are guided by the
belief that God chooses leaders and not through acts of desperation as
demonstrated by Wike and his PDP” saying that “Never in the history of Rivers
State was there this level of violence and terror on any political party like the
APC has been subjected to”.
The organisation challenged Wike whom they described
as acting unsportsmanlike to make good his threat and be mature in his approach
to politics by facing issues rather than resorting to cheap
blackmail and falsehood because Rivers people are
wiser.
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