The Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged Governor Nyesom Wike to explain the role he played in the N700 million poll bribery scam.
The state APC challenged the state governor, Wike, in a statement issued by the APC Publicity Secretary, Mr Chris Finebone, in Port Harcourt on Saturday.
The statement reads: “It is almost a week since the news came out of the EFCC that the detained PDP Secretary told the anti-graft agency that he collected N700 million from Fidelity Bank on the instruction of Wike.
“However, Gov. Wike has kept sealed lips about the revelation by the PDP State Secretary who is about to be charged to court soon by the anti-graft agency.
“The APC notes that whereas the anti-graft agency might put the invitation of the governor on hold because of constitutional immunity, he is already being investigated,’’
The statement reads further: “The APC wishes to call on Wike to clear the air about this obviously damaging revelation which has painted the image of his office and that of the state in opprobrious light.
“It is the conviction of the APC that the governor owes it as a duty to Rivers people to confirm or deny with facts and figures the accusation,”
“But we urge Wike to tell Rivers people and Nigerians his role in the confessions made against him by the state secretary of his own party, the PDP,”