TVC E. The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state has alleged that Governor Nyesom Wike is plotting to intimidate and blackmail Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, president of the Court of Appeal, and other Appeal Court Justices, Leadership reports.
According to a statement released by the main opposition party in the state, Wike plans to use a non-governmental organisation, Integrity Group to execute the alleged plan.
The APC also claimed that Wike activated the group to draft and make a publication that will blackmail Bulkachuwa and others over pending murder case involving former chairman of Asari-Toru local government area, Ojukaye Flag-Amachree.
In a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Monday, June 27, by Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, the APC state chairman in Rivers state, the party further alleged that the executive director of the non-governmental organisation, Livingstone Wechie met the governor in a meeting where the publication was further fine-tuned and the sum of N10 million handed over to the group to ensure wider spread of the publication.
The statement reads in part: “The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has uncovered a plot by Governor Nyesom Wike to smear, intimidate and blackmail the President of the Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa and other Appeal Court Justices using the so-called Integrity Group led by one Livingstone Wechie and his cohorts.
“The APC wishes to reveal that members of the Integrity Friends for Truth and Peace Initiative, also known as Integrity Group were activated by Gov. Nyesom Wike to draft and make a publication that will effectively intimidate and blackmail Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa and others over the pending Ojukaye Flag-Amachree matter in court.”
The APC had earlier claimed that Governor Nyesom Wike had concluded plans to sponsor members of the PDP thugs and hoodlums to protest and disrupt the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Rivers state to flag off the UNEP cleanup of Ogoni land on Thursday, June 2, a trip the president surprisingly didn’t embark on as he sent Vice president Yemi Osinbajo.
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