By Gbenga Oke

Director-General of Greater Together Campaign Organisation, GTCO, Mr Victor Giadom, has described the threat by the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Mr Nyesom Wike, to make public the financial dealings of All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Dr Dakuku Peterside, as an empty threat.

The campaign organisation described the move by Wike as another calculated smear campaign that will fail.

Giadom, in a statement, said that Peterside in all his public life had acted with integrity and the fear of God.

He said: “Ordinarily, we would have ignored this spurious threat on our candidate but for the misleading impact it could create on the public. Dr. Peterside in all his public life has acted with integrity and fear of God and this organisation knows that Wike’s threat is another calculated smear campaign option of the PDP that will fail like the several attempts on Dr. Peterside’s life.

“Dr. Peterside will never employ blackmail as a strategy and such threat would not affect or distract our candidate’s plans and commitment towards achieving victory in the April 11, governorship election..

“Wike is already aware of failure and he is struggling desperately to wriggle out of it. But this reality should not warrant cheap blackmail, threats and falsehood as a means of survival. One would have expected the PDP candidate to devise other ways.

“As an organisation, our actions are guided by the belief that God chooses leaders.”