early as 6am, I heard that thugs have taken over the
secretariat of APC. And because of all this noise about police and
all that, despite the fact that the party had invited the police to
protect the property, they could not do anything when they come.
‘Meanwhile the party needed to sell forms for any one who was
interested. So what a governorship candidate wants to do is that
there should not be any congress. He took over the party
secretariat with thugs. It till about 3pm that the police had to force
themselves in for people to purchase forms for tomorrow’s
congress.

“If that candidate is popular, why not tell your supporters to go and
purchase that form and go and contest the congress. Am grateful
that people bought forms and I hope his supporters also bought
the forms, because tomorrow’ the Ward congresses will hold.
‘The police were there when the offices of the APC were destroyed.
It is not true there were policemen sent anywhere’ rather it was the
police that were invited by the party for protection of the party
secretariat and to disperse the thugs brought to disrupt the
purchase of forms.

‘Forms were sold to contestant, tomorrow we are going ahead with
the congresses. And to think of the lie again that I had hijacked the
materials. There are no materials for Ward Congresses. It is just
for people to buy forms and contest elections. Go to the bank, pay
and collect your teller and get your form.
‘People will queue up tomorrow and supervisors from the national
secretariat will count votes on Option A4 and whoever wins
becomes the chairman. And a report of the results by the
committee is sent to the National Secretariat at Abuja. No other
materials. So there are no materials to hijack.

‘I am not aware of any injunction of any kind. Neither has the party
told me of any injunction. By the way I thought the court says
before you grant an injunction the other party must be out on
notice. That’s one. The second part is that the action for which
they are trying to stop has commenced.
‘What they are trying to stop is not a day thing. People have
bought forms and they have actually left to their various villages
for the exercise tomorrow. No party officer is left here. They have
all gone. I am not a party officer, I am a former governor and
Minister, so if you serve me of what effect?
On Wike

‘The governor, Wike is a clown, why don’t you enjoy his jokes.
There is also a thing we need to talk about. When I was governor
for how many years’ was there a time we announced to hotels that
they should not receive visitors. How can the governor of a state
say that hotels should not welcome APC leaders and that anyone
found will be closed down and nobody is talking?
‘When a governor is doing those things he’s fighting, he is afraid. It
is not politics, it is fear. He is very very afraid and I am enjoying
his jokes. I w
ant him to feel what I felt.