Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that he expected the confirmation of his re-election by the Supreme Court because the defeated Governorship candidate of the African Action Congress ( AAC), Mr. Biokpomabo Awara couldn’t have won an election he didn’t contest.
In an interview at the weekend, Governor Wike said from the very beginning, there was no issue because the AAC Candidate posed no problem, since he was unknown to Rivers people.
Governor Wike said he only got to know of Biokpomabo Awara about two days to the election because such a person never existed in the political lexicon of Rivers State.
He said: “I expected the confirmation because the law is clear. The man who is challenging us never contested any election, so he couldn’t have won. It is so painful, but what do you do?
“It is part of life, if he really ran the election with us, one can say there could be a problem. A man that I never knew till a few days to the election, how would it have been that the man won the election? So I expected that the Court would do the right thing, which they did.”
Governor Wike expressed confidence in the capacity of the Judiciary to always act in the best interest of the nation’s democracy. He said even though nobody expects perfection, the Judiciary has continues to perform her constitutional responsibilities.
