It is a sad day for the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, as the last Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator, Osinakachukwu Ideozu representing Rivers West, has now defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The Majority Leader at the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, announced Osinakachukwu’s defection at plenary, on Wednesday.
Lawan, who was moving a motion for the adjournment of plenary till November 6, welcomed and congratulated him for joining the majority party.
With this, the three Senators from Rivers State, a PDP-controlled State, are now members of the APC.
Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State earlier said that he is not sure elections will hold in 2019 following recent happenings in the country. He said this while hosting a group of lawyers under the aegis of class 84 of the Nigerian law school at the government house, Port-Harcourt, the state capital.
He said the time had come for Nigerians to rise and speak up against the wrongs being perpetrated in Nigeria
He said: “The judiciary has been so much intimidated. It is unfortunate that the Nigerian Bar Association gave out themselves when they saw the intimidation of the judiciary, instead of them to rise and to say look, we can’t accept this.
“Today, because of fear and intimidation, it is difficult for any judge to sit and say I want to write a judgement, it doesn’t matter what will be. Then the security will come and tell you we saw N1million in your account, come and explain, and the judge will say, instead of this embarrassment, let me do what they want me to.
“With the way it is now, I don’t know whether there will be elections in 2019.”
He urged Nigerians to hold gatherings that will proffer solutions to the problems bedeviling the country even as elections drew near.
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