The chairman of Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) has raised the alarm over alleged threat to his life by suspected agents of the former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike.
Indeed, Nwanyanwu fingered one Moses Emmanuel, alleged agent of minister of federal capital territory, Wike reportedly drafted to kill him at Transcorp Hilton in Abuja.
Speaking at a press conference held on Monday in Abuja, the chairman of ZLP, called on the Inspector General of the Police, Director General of the DSS and the National Security Adviser and the General Public to act before it will degenerate to a point where no Nigerian will be safe for expressing his opinion on national issues.
He explained that the threat followed “an interview that I granted to express my personal views and suggestions on this burning issue of Rivers State crises that apparently provoked Chief Nyeson Wike to dispatch his hitman to threaten me with elimination if I ventured to speak again on the matter of Rivers State”.
Continuing, Nwanyanwu urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to take the matter seriously, “I demand that I am provided with adequate security to protect myself and family, I further demand that Chief Nyeson Wike sign an undertaken that he will be held responsible if anything unwholesome happens to me and my family, henceforth”.
“Should anything happen to me and any member of my family, the security Agencies need not look far as to who did” Nwanyanwu added.
Specifically, Nwanyanwu noted “I am constrained to bring to the notice of the Nigeria Public the unprovoked open threat to my life by a notorious Agent of the Former Governor of Rivers State and now Minister of Federal Capital Territory FCT Chief Nyesom Wike, one Mr. Moses Emmanuel. This blood thirsty killer brazenly confronted me at the Pastry shop, Transcorp Hilton where I was having snacks and coffee with my friend Alhaji Aliyu.
“He said he wanted to speak with me. Not having known him before now, I demanded to know what he wanted to speak to me about, he said he would like to speak with me and I offered him a seat to sit down.
“He introduced himself as a brother to Chief Nyeson Wike, and began to threaten my life making reference to a television interview I granted where I expressed my personal views on the avoidable crises in Rivers State which was being orchestrated and fueled by the followers of the former Governor against the incumbent Governor Chief Simi Fubara.
“Most well-meaning Nigerians and leaders have at various times since the Rivers crises began expressed their views about the threatening explosion in that critical State of Nigeria.I have in all my political life intervened to the best of my ability on any issue that is likely to destabilize our fledgling democracy” Nwanyanwu added.
