DSS Probe Of Rivers REC In Order -APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers
State has thrown its weight behind the current
probe of the State Resident Electoral
Commissioner (REC), Mrs. Gesila Khan, by the
Department of State Security (DSS).
The party in a statement by the State Chairman,
Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, berated the opposition
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for seeking to
stop the DSS from carrying out its constitutional
duties because of its well-known dalliance with
Mrs. Khan.
“By petitioning the DSS over the probe of Mrs.
Gesila Khan, the PDP Reps have publicly
exposed the unholy alliance between their party
and REC Khan, of which we have been crying
even before the March 28 and April 11 elections,
in which she brazenly took sides with PDP and
worked overzealously to return the party’s
candidates for all the positions so as to justify
the huge sums of money she collected from the
then ruling party and please her relation, the
then president Goodluck Jonathan,” Rivers APC
said.
The party in the statement issued on Sunday in
Port Harcourt pointed out that if for nothing REC
Khan should explain the source of the
humongous sum of N700m reportedly found in
her account which suspect must be funds the
Jonathan Presidency and Candidate Nyesom
Wike paid out to the woman to buy the mandate
of Rivers people in the last general elections.
Sadly, they did not tutor her well enough on how
to deal with such huge amount of money.
The party further stated that Under the new
dispensation, the law is not a respecter of
individuals, stressing that Mrs. Khan and some
of her key staff invited for questioning by the
DSS are not above the law. “If they are sure of
the results of the elections in Rivers State, all
they need to do is to report to the DSS and
prove their innocence,” Rivers APC said. It
lambasted the Rivers Federal Lawmakers,
saying: “The petitioners here are beneficiaries of
the alleged crime perpetrated by REC Khan and
her INEC collaborators, so they have no moral
justification to protest. Since when did the Reps
become defenders of INEC officials?”
According to Rivers APC, “If Col. Sambo Dasuki
(retd.), former National Security Adviser, former
ADC to one-time Military President, General
Ibrahim Babangida (IBB), a scion of the royal
caliphate in Sokoto, can be investigated by the
DSS, then why the cry over the move to
investigate Mrs. Khan and her collaborators?
Are they bigger than Gordon Obuah, former
President Goodluck Jonathan’s Chief Security
Officer, who is also being investigated by the
DSS despite being a senior DSS official and still
in service?”
The party advised PDP to come to terms with
the fact that it is a new dawn in Nigeria and
that everyone should be prepared at all times to
defend his or her stewardship. “Power has
CHANGED hands for good and no one is a
sacred cow. Even President Buhari has made it
clear that NO ONE SHALL ESCAPE JUSTICE,”
Rivers APC stated.
Signed
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, SSA on Media and
Public Affairs to the State Chairman, APC Rivers
State
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