“We have a failed state in Nigeria today. I have been reading what is happening in Rivers State. Any government that cannot protect its citizens is not worth being called a government.
“I stand for a government that knows that 19 is bigger than 16. I stand for a party that I know will bring light to the darkness in Nigeria. I stand for a party of people of substance both in words and in character,” he said. The professor of virology expressed his support for Governor Rotimi Amaechi and any party that would bring light over the country’s current darkness.
Also at the news conference, the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State called on the United Nations, the Amnesty International and other relevant international organisations to intervene in the continued attacks on its members.
It said through its Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, that while some of its members had been killed by suspected Peoples Democratic Party thugs, others had been seriously injured.
The party urged humanitarian and democratic organisations to send high-powered election monitoring teams to the state. According to the APC, doing so would help to avert bloodbath and make the election outcomes in the state acceptable.