Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has declared the state the safest in Nigeria. The claim did not however seem to go down well with the leading opposition party in the state, the All Progressives Congress (APC), which has told the visiting police boss that the state was far from being what the governor described it to be.
In a statement signed by the Rivers APC spokesman, Darlington Nwauju, the party said its attention was rudely attracted to comments credited to Gov Wike during the visit of the Inspector General of Police, to the effect that Rivers State is the safest state in the country, a claim which they said was very far from the truth. “This statement shows how far the governor is from reality in the state.”
