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<\/p>\nPrincewill, a former governorship aspirant in the state, in a statement signed and issued to DAILY POST on Wednesday, called on security agencies to be extremely active in the discharge of their constitutional responsibilities.<\/p>\n
DAILY POST had earlier reported a claim by Tony\u2019s campaign organization that the business tycoon narrowly escaped death when assassins attacked him in Degema Local Government Area of the State.<\/p>\n
But Princewill said, \u201cI want to thank all those who reached out to our candidate with messages of sympathy and support after witnessing the act of sheer desperation the other day by our opponents during his visit to Degema LGA.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt should be of no surprise to anyone to know that Tonye Cole is not only still active and well, but even more determined to push forward until sanity is restored to our politics again. He is neither bowed nor subdued, but is rather emboldened by his faith and his purpose. He\u2019s here to win. And by God\u2019s grace, he will.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to use this opportunity to first call on the security agencies who are responsible for keeping the peace, to set an example that such acts will never go unpunished. It is the absence of consequence that provides the climate for this type of lawlessness.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile Castro said, \u2018it is unlawful to be lawful in a lawless society\u2019 Tonye maintains that \u201can eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of us were not with APC immediately after 2015, when being a member of APC was an invitation to write your will. We won\u2019t accept that. We expect this set of security chiefs to mirror their successes elsewhere. The Niger Delta is the wealth of the nation and Rivers state is the treasure base. It must be secure.<\/p>\n
\u201cSecondly, let me remind the international community, particularly the US, UK and EU ambassadors that previous attempts at halting violence did not work because none of your governments had any teeth. Known candidates engaged in known violence and nothing came out of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo travel bans, no targeted sanctions and no withdrawal of support. I was there. Every step of the way. It\u2019s that impotence that provides a cover for no consequence. The result is a recurring cycle of violence. If we want to stop getting what we are getting, you have to stop doing what you\u2019ve been doing. Friends should tell each other the truth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we appreciate a lot of the good work both you and the security agencies are doing, it is clearly not enough in Rivers state and the cost of failure is too high. It\u2019s measured in people\u2019s lives. Condolences, shuttle diplomacy and speeches are simply not going to be enough.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A frontline Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Prince Tonye Princewill, has condemned in strongest of terms the recent alleged assassination attempt on the party\u2019s governorship candidate for the 2019 poll, Architect Tony Cole. Princewill, a former governorship aspirant in the state, in a statement signed and issued to DAILY POST on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3,4],"tags":[29,642,6366],"class_list":["post-63437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-rivers","tag-tonye-cole"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}