14,319 appointees: Group condemns Wike

A group, the One-on-One-Network, has raised the alarm over the announcement of 14,319 appointees by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, just a few months before the 2023 elections.

The group said the appointments were purely political and aimed at instigating violence in the state before and during the poll.

The Director-General of One-on-One-Network, LoveGod Nweze, said this in a statement issued on Wednesday and made available to newsmen in Port Harcourt.

Nweze warned said aside from the 14,000 advisers for various political units in the state, Wike also appointed 319 Ward Liaison officers.

He alleged that the sudden appointment when there have been several calls on the governor to employ people was a cover-up to unleash men that will do his bidding in the build-up to the elections.

Nweze further said the move was to hire known thugs and cultists as advisers to begin to intimidate members of the opposition political parties, especially coming on the heels of the pronouncement of Executive Order 21 by the governor to ’emasculate perceived political opponents.

He urges security agencies to resist any lure to compromise due process to be tools and agents for a political witch hunt. Punch