The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Rivers state government of involvement in the assassination of one of its lawyers and renowned human rights activists, Ken Atsuwete.
Atsuwete, who was one of the lead counsels to the detained former chairman of Asari-Toru local government area, Hon. Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, was murdered on Sundaynight by unknown gunmen, near his residence at Aluu community in Ikwerre local government area of Rivers State.
Vice Chairman of APC in the state, Prince Peter Odike, who made the accusation at the party secretariat on Tuesday, added that APC reasons for the accusation are obvious and lucid.
He said: “The APC wishes to be on record that the Rivers State Government and their agents must be held responsible for the killing of Barrister Ken Atswete and the reasons for our charge are obvious and lucid.
“Late Ken Atswete was one of the leading counsels to APC chieftain, Hon. Ojukaye Flag-Amachree who is presently incarcerated on trumped-up charges surreptitiously inspired and driven by the Rivers State Government led by Governor Nyesom Wike.
“Officials of the state government have variously vowed to teach the APC and its leader, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi a lesson by jailing one of its most active leaders, Hon. Flag-Amachree. However, Ken Atswete, as counsel to Flag-Amachree, had thrown in everything into the defence of his client to the chagrin of officials of the state government who are the traducers of Ojukaye Flag-Amachree.
“Again, late Ken Atswete had not relented in standing with citizens and public servants against the wrongful use of state power. The many cases he has instituted in this regard attest to that fact.”
