A renowned political scholar and activist, Dr Uche Igwe has described the governor of Rivers State as a hypocritical leader who has an addiction for tyranny.

He was responding to reports making round in the media about how the governor allegedly lifted the ban on covid-19 lockdown just for the inauguration of the new executives of his political party.

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The event which held at Obi Wali cultural centre has been criticised by many observers especially as pictures emerging from it shows that the rules of social distancing were ignored.

According to the pundit, “I am shocked that Governor Wike lifted this ban for selfish political reasons. He definitely does not care about who is infected by covid-19 as far as his political objectives are met.

”It is clear that he prefers to be the governor of PDP, not rivers State. His has demonstrated his preference for politics rather than the health and wellbeing of the people.”

”Nothing can be more dubilitious and lunasome especially when you know how this same man allegedly terrorized innocent citizens in the last few days in the name of enforcing the lockdown.”

“It has been allegedly revealed that the Rivers State government intends to relax the lockdown until Saturday ostensibly to allow the inauguration of the executives of his party the PDP at LGA and ward levels.”

These developments are happening in the midst of worrying reports of a daily rise in reported cases of the infection in the state.

Vanguard