Rivers APC wants FG’s tough stance on Sowere over attacks on Tinubu, Wike

…Says effort to incite Nigerians treasonable

By Daniel Abia, P/Harcourt

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Rivers authorities has called connected the national authorities to instantly state a pugnacious stance connected the 2023 statesmanlike campaigner of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowere implicit his caller vituperations connected President Bola Tinubu and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.

APC besides wants Nigerians to basal up against radical it describes arsenic “rascal and nitwit” desiring to hitch the integrity of the state successful the mud, “rather than springiness heed to oregon output to the antics of a serial merchant of discord and purveyor of half-truths”.

In a connection helium issued successful Port Harcourt connected Wednesday, the Rivers State president of the APC, Tony Okocha, said that spreading mendacious quality with wide volition to overreach oregon defame the other’s quality oregon integrity is ”unacceptable”.

Okocha said that “attempting to incite Nigerians against the authorities with the crudity of style, is treasonable felony, adding that “any enactment which is susceptible of undermining nationalist spot and potent capable to endanger Nigeria’s democracy, stemming from malice, is unacceptable”.

Recall that recently, Sowere referred to President Tinubu arsenic a “criminal”, adjacent arsenic helium alleged that Wike utilized nationalist funds to bargain costly houses successful Florida, United States.

Reacting to the allegations, Okocha said: “In each democracy, disapproval is welcome, but what Nigerians indispensable cull are deliberate lies, propaganda, and attempts to defame nether the disguise of ‘activism’.

“This is precisely what Omoyele Sowore, steadfast of Sahara Reporters has perfected implicit the years. Sowore has built his full vocation connected lies. His Sahara Reporters level is notorious for publishing fabricated stories and half-truths, often utilized arsenic tools for blackmail and extortion.

“These baseless allegations are thing much than the bitter rantings of a antheral rejected by Nigerians astatine the polls and drowning successful governmental irrelevance”, wondering what sane national of a state tin notation to the highest bureau holder, arsenic a “Criminal”?

Okocha recalled that lone recently, the Nigerian Police charged Sowere with forgery and mendacious work for circulating “a fake” constabulary awesome designed to undermine nationalist security. “This is not activism. It is outright criminality”.

He went connected to accidental that “Sowore presently stands for a proceedings for cybercrime and defamation. The DSS filed aggregate charges against him for transmitting false, inciting and malicious messages against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu connected societal media.

“His deliberate lies are aimed astatine inciting nationalist unrest, sowing distrust and discord successful institutions with the poisonous volition to destabilise Nigeria. A antheral lasting proceedings for specified sedate offences ought to rein successful himself and see himself arsenic lacking successful motivation imperative to insult credible leaders who are moving highly hard to physique the nation.

“Nigerians retrieve intelligibly the #RevolutionNow protests led by Sowore successful 2019. He openly called for “days of rage” to topple a democratically elected government. That reckless run was thing but an attempted insurrection, unwittingly packaged arsenic activism.

“No genuine politician calls for the convulsive overthrow of a morganatic government. Sowore’s actions then, and his continued incitement present beryllium that helium is much of an anarchist and a psychopath than a patriot”.

The APC authorities president said that this benignant of blackmail aimed astatine the jugulars of Mr. President and Minister Wike is dormant connected arrival, saying that Nigerians are funny successful factual grounds and facts, “not wiled conjectures with the wide intentions to blackmail.

“Provide cogent and verifiable facts starring to definite apodictic conclusions and we articulation to escalate it to precocious heavens,” helium said.

Okocha nevertheless reeled retired President Tinubu and Minister Wike’s achievements successful conscionable a small much than 2 years, appealing that Nigerians should observe the President’s gigantic stride different than paying attraction to blackmails.

“President Tinubu is implementing his 10~points docket nether the taxable ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’ The system is...