The brouhaha over the arrest, detention and release of the Rivers State Resident Electoral Commission, Mrs. Gezila Khan by the DSS seems like the PDP in Rivers state is yet to manifest their new vision after confessing their ‘blindness’ in supporting a failed leader and President who for six years instituted high profile corruption with an index compared to none, as well as encouraging high tech indiscipline in government.
The recent posture of the PDP is definitely a pointer to that effect as they have practically refused to key into the change movement which aims at truly repositioning our country by ensuring that those charged with the responsibility of holding public office do not steal us blind, leaving the masses to suffer in penury.
INEC remains an agency of the federal government which is not only independent but mandates all its staff to maintain neutrality. For obvious reasons, these persons under the employment of the FG have chosen to use the occasion of elections to amass so much wealth while protecting each other as they engage in the same crime.
Unfortunately, the immediate past Chairman of INEC, Prof. Jega failed to wield the big stick as enshrined in its code of conduct. Most times, these RECs and Commissioners are not alone in this conspiracy to defraud the people of their mandate. It is more or less an organised crime close to the mafia in the GODFATHER.
The world rose up in one voice to condemn the elections held in Abia, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States. In deed, these states were the flash points of the elections. In spite of these wide spread condemnations that trailed the conduct of the security agencies and the electoral body, the officials in these states particularly in Akwa Ibom and Rivers are bent on covering the fraud they allegedly committed during and after the elections.
The opposition party in these two states have not only complained before the tribunals but have petitioned the President, IG of Police, DG of the DSS and other authorities on the conduct of these officials even after the election.
Gezila Khan, a relation of President Jonathan was then invited by the DSS to explain why she has refused to allow the APC access to electoral materials for inspection as enshrined in the Electoral Act. She is also expected to explain what she knows about the deliberate destruction of ballot papers used for the elections. Worse still, Mrs. Khan is expected to clear her self of allegations of bribery levelled against her by the APC.
Rather than do the needful, she decided to first alert her partners in progress, the PDP who are now playing the role of watch dog for INEC.
Sadly, the same gladiators who are crying foul over the quiz of Khan and the EFCC freeze of her accounts were less than six months ago the best friends of the security agencies whom they used to intimidate, hound and harass those in opposition to their principal, Jonathan. It got so bad to the point that even sitting governors were stoned and chased away from their meeting place. Worse still, was the use of the security agencies to stop former Gov. Amaechi from using an access road to the Government House as well as shutting down the Rivers State House of Assembly for two years in order to prevent majority of the lawmakers from sitting.
These group of petitioners were mostly in the National Assembly when one man, Nyesom Wike reduced governance to a rumble. They clapped, wined and celebrated when members of the APC and their supporters including traditional rulers were thrown into detention by security agencies on the orders from above.
It was for the sake of supporting President Buhari and the APC that many persons were maimed and murdered in cold blood, and the suspected sponsors of these crimes are yet to be arrested and prosecuted.
Those who decided the fate of others now have their fate being decided. How things change. In deed, every night season precedes a morning season.
Is Gezila Khan a staff of the Rivers State Government and the PDP or is she an employee of the Federal Government?
Mrs. Khan should have listened to the voice of reason, to have stopped in her mission to ‘deliver’ Jonathan when she saw his defeat. But she overstepped her bounds and alleged insatiability.
She is not above the law!
The PDP legislators have turned from being LAWMAKERS to NOISEMAKERS, a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal!..
Oby Ndukwe is a Publisher of The Beam Magazine
She wrote from Portharcourt
