By Valentine Amanze (with agency report)
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has raised the alarm over an alleged plot by the Federal Government of Nigeria to frame him up by planting illegal items on him during a foreign trip.
The governor, through his Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, said that Federal Government agents had planned to storm his hotel room during a foreign trip, and plant illegal items on him, and use foreign security agencies to quiz and embarrass him.
Wike said: “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.”
Wike said, although he was neither scared nor disturbed over the alleged plot, he felt the need to alert the nation and the world to the evil and dangerous dimension politics had degenerated in the country.
His words: “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.”
