The APC had alleged that Wike had bolstered his support for the candidate with a whooping N2billion donation.
But the governor has fired back at the opposition party in the state, dismissing the report as false, baseless and unfounded, insisting that he has given Ize-Iyamu was moral support.
Reiterating his commitment, Wike vowed to continue to support democratic forces, not just in the Niger Delta, but across Nigeria, to bring better life to the people of the country.
However, the APC, in the statement, said Wike has been a pillar of financial backing for Ize-Iyamu.
The Rivers Commissioner for Information and Communications, Dr. Austin Tam-George, while speaking on behalf the governor, emphasised that Wike had no N2billion to give the Edo PDP candidate.
He also denied allegations by the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, that Wike and his Delta State counterpart, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, were mobilising militants to rig the September 28 election for the PDP candidate.
Tam-George said: “Governor Wike has no links with militants in the region, and anywhere else in the country. He (Wike) has only given moral support to the PDP candidate in Edo State to overcome the ineptitude and dysfunction the APC imposed on the people.”
The commissioner explained that Wike asked the people of Edo State to stand firm in defence of their sovereign right by voting for the PDP in the election.
However, the APC Publicity Secretary in Rivers State, Chris Finebone, Sunday, that Ize-Iyamu has been receiving massive financial support from Wike.
Finebone said: “Wike should, for once, be courageous to accept that he also gave material and financial support to the Edo PDP’s governorship candidate (Ize-Iyamu), as alleged by Governor Adams Oshiomhole.
“We all know that Wike is still on his schizophrenic delusion of grandeur. It is this same obscene pursuit of his that sent the PDP to its present life-support situation. Happily, some of his own people are now cutting him to size.
“The APC in Rivers State believes that Wike mobilized and exported militants and hoodlums to Edo State to rig the September 10 election, and he will repeat the same on September 28, 2016. Security agents and Edo people must be vigilant.
“We have informed him (Wike) that since all his government can export is militancy, election-rigging and violence, he should tell Rivers people how much inflow that will bring, to improve the economy of Rivers State.
“The Rivers State governor should halt his ego trip and conserve funds to pay teachers’ outstanding seven months’ salaries, pay pensioners their nine months’ pensions, close to one year outstanding wages to Rivers State House of Assembly legislative aides and others who are already dying every now and then,” the APC publicity secretary stressed.
Source: Nation
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