Alleged Threat To Life: Secondus Asks Tinubu To Investigate Wike

-Says There Should Be No Bloodshed Over Rivers State Politics

Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Prince Uche Secondus has called on President Bola Tinubu to direct a thorough investigation into the series of allegation of threat to life against the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike.

National Chairman of Zenith Labour Political Party (ZLP), Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere and former Minister of Transport Dr Abiye Sekibo, had variously accused Wike of threatening their lives.

Nwanyanwu had on Tuesday, alleged that he was confronted by someone suspected to be working for the minister at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, threatening to kill him, following his press interview on the crisis in Rivers state where he accused Wike of undue interference.

Secondus in a statement by his media adviser, Ike Abonyi, warned that there should be no bloodshed over Rivers State politics.

According to him, any action that will lead to intimidation of persons with opposing views on issues must be discouraged.

Secondus contended that good politician should rely on his popularity, not on the use of coercion to achieve his aim.

“If the former governor now resorts to threats to life on everyone who has an opposing view to his own, it then means he has lost the people’s legitimacy, and the earlier he realises this the better for him,” he said.

He recalled that Wike recently threatened a serving Senator Ireti Kingibe that she would not be re-elected for holding opposing view on the way he runs the affairs of the territory.

He called on President Buhari to rein in the minister and put a check on his attitude before he brought huge embarrassment to his administration.

“To avoid a decisive action on these critical allegations now amidst the biting economic hardship in the country is to set fears in the society on innocent people,” he added.