Buhari plans to declare state of emergency in Rivers - Gov. Wike

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike said yesterday in Port Harcourt that President Muhammadu Buhari was under intense pressure from APC leaders to declare a state of emergency in his state.


 The governor who spoke when he granted audience to Anglican Bishops of Niger Delta Province   said he learnt of the pressure on the president during a recent meeting with him at the State House. He said: “When I went to see the president, he told me that he was under pressure to declare  a state of emergency in Rivers State. 

Those things they planned to use in declaring state of emergency in Rivers State fell on their own states and it became difficult  to do so”. He said because of the mass insecurity  across the country, the eyes of the plotters had left Rivers State.  He said: “When you sit and plot evil against Rivers State, you will not know peace. If they don’t apologise for plotting and executing evil against Rivers State, they will never know peace”.

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The governor said Rivers State survived because of the prayers of clerics and the church.  Earlier, the Anglican Archbishop of Niger Delta Province, Most Reverend Ignatius Kattey, said the bishops were in the Government House to appreciate the governor for his roles in the success of the Anglican Synod.