The Rivers State Government has denied media reports
claiming that Governor Wike in an audio recording threatened the life of senior
electoral officials over last Saturday’s rerun election in the State, stating
that a voice technology from Japan or South – Korea was used to convert the
clip to the Governor’s voice in order to blackmail him.
A statement signed yesterday by the state Commissioner for
Information, Austin Tam-George described the clip as a cheap blackmail, stressing that Wike did
not make any contact with INEC officials, either in person or by telephone in
the build up to the December 10 rerun elections.
The statement reads, “The attention of the Rivers State
Government has been drawn to a publication by Saharareporters, alleging that
governor Nyesom Wike had illicit contacts with officials of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), in the run up to the rerun elections, on
the 10th of December 2016 in Rivers State.
“We categorically deny these latest allegations as a sick fabrication,
and an outright lie.“Governor Wike never made any contact with INEC officials,
in person or by telephone.“Saharareporters.com is the online propaganda
bullhorn of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Their publications are
typically false, and the writers are professional hawkers of fiction.“No one
would have thought that the APC and its cowardly media allies would resort to
an audio impersonation of governor Nyesom Wike, using a voice changer
technology.
“The voice changer technology is often used by teenagers
especially in South Korea and Japan to launch innocent technological pranks at
each other, mainly for laughs.“The use of such a technology to blackmail a
governor is a new criminal low for the APC, a party already widely discredited for
its addiction to falsehood.“The APC and Saharareporters are inmates in the
prison of their own lies. We reject the latest blackmail by the APC,” the
statement concluded.
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