Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has described as a waste of time the 48 hours ultimatum issued by the Ijaw National Congress (INC) over the arrest of Farah Dagogo, who is standing trial on two-count charge of conspiracy to felony and cultism.
The governor, said this at a Thanksgiving service on Sunday to celebrate the legal victory secured at the Supreme Court, in the Oil well battle between Rivers and Imo state, at the St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Port Harcourt.
According to him, the right thing for INC to do, would have been to come to government to find out crux of the issues.
He stated that Farah would have lived within the bounds of the amnesty offered him by the Federal Government instead of returning to acts that threatened the peaceful conduct of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) screening exercise.
Wike explained that as chief security of the state, he directed the police to arrest Dagogo because he had mobilised cultists to disrupt the screening of federal and state legislature aspirants.
“Enough is enough of all these young boys, thinking that they can take everybody for granted and overrun the state, not when I’m a governor of this State. You can do it when another person is a governor, not while I’m here,” he said.
“You (Farah) are not running for National Assembly, you are not running for State Assembly, you went and brought cultists to the party secretariat, to destroy the party secretariat and as a governor, as a leader of the party I should fold my hands and see a criminal, an illiterate overrun my party,” he added.
