Did Buhari Interfere With Rivers Rerun Elections?

Is the governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike right to exonerate President Muhammadu Buhari from the security fiasco that characterised the rerun elections conducted in Rivers State last Saturday?

Governor Nyesom Wike reportedly lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for distancing himself from the re-run elections in the state, saying he did not interfere with the exercise. The governor rather accused the Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi of allegedly plotting to rig the elections.

I think Wike misfired this time. Yours truly and the rest of the television viewers around the world saw the video showed by Channels Television, where Chibuike Amaechi stormed a police station where an INEC official was being held accompanied by men in military uniform. The last time I checked, President Buhari is still the Commander-in-Chief of Nigerian Armed Forces and the soldiers would be running around a ‘bloody civilian’ without the consent of the Commander-in-Chief.

I think Wike is just trying to be politically correct, so that security agents would not be plotting his impeachment as they are alleged to be plotting against governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, who has been the thorn on the flesh of the Buhari’s administration.

If Buhari is not an interested party in the rerun elections in Rivers State let him compel the INEC chairman which he appointed and the electoral body, to release the rest of Rivers rerun elections result except the eight local governments that was officially cancelled by INEC.

Unless the president does that his neutrality is suspicious. Already the jury out there is that the results are allegedly withheld because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dusted the All Progressives Congress (APC)-the party of the president. The world is watching.

Let me paraphrase the eternal words of Usman Dan Fodio (1754-1817): A society can survive without religion; but no society can survive without justice. Let Buhari do justice to Rivers people. Let Rivers rerun election results be announced by INEC as demanded by Nyesom Wike and Rivers people.