Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has revealed alleged plots orchestrated against him by the Federal Government any time he travels outside the shores of Nigeria.
The governor said that part of the plot was to mete out to him the alleged treatment done to former governor of Bayelsa State, late Diepreye Alamieseigha, who was arrested in the United Kingdom during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo over alleged money laundering.
He was subsequently removed as the governor of the state and his then deputy, Goodluck Jonathan, replaced him as the governor of the state.
In a statement through the Special Assistant to the Rivers State governor on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, on Sunday, Wike claimed his investigations showed that the Federal Government was employing the services of her security agencies to design the plot to set him up.
“My investigation reveals that the Federal government, using her security agencies, is planning to set me up anytime I am travelling outside the country. They plan to organise security to storm the hotel I am staying and say they found xyz cash in my possession; after which they would say I was arrested for currency trafficking or whatever offences outside the country.
“They will then precipitate crisis in my state and other parts of Nigeria. They will plan demonstrations to demonize me and claim I have gone outside to embarrass the country. The public odium is meant to smear me before my people and other Nigerians. It is unfortunate, wicked and unfair.
“What they plan is similar to what was once done to the late Chief DSP Alamieseigha. They are planning what they call the ‘Alams treatment’ for me. But, by the grace of Almighty God, they will fail,” he said.
The governor said he was making this known to the public not because he was scared by the alleged plot, but to let Nigerians and the world know the evil and dangerous dimension politics in the country had degenerated to.
“I am using this opportunity to alert the world of the sinister plot. I am a law-abiding citizen of this country and countries I visit in the course of my work or holidays. I have never dabbled into anything illegal. So, any attempt to frame me up on trumped up charges or alleged offences is bound to fail.
“What they are doing is just cheap politics. They want to intimidate the opposition into silence as they are already doing with their so-called ‘looters’ list’. It won’t work. We can’t all be intimidated. What we expect government at the centre to do is to showcase to the people their lists of achievements; why they should get a second chance. But they have nothing to show; so they are embarking on intimidation and arm-twisting tactics of the opposition,” Wike said.
