Jubilation in Rivers before Supreme Court verdict on Wike

Hintsloaded can authoritatively report that before the official pronouncement of decision of the Supreme Court about Governor Nyesom Wike over the Appeal Court, celebrations had started on the streets of Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital.

And after the decision by the court, drinking joints immediately started experiencing unprecedented patronages while security had also been beefed up at major road junctions to curtail excesses of supporters of both the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the main opposition, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state capital.

In his first reaction, Emma Okah, a lawyer and Commissioner for Housing wrote on his Facebook wall: “Wike and PDP won at the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Federal might failed. Pride of APC failed. Supreme Court feared God.”

Ken Atswete, a Port Harcourt based human rights lawyer, also said: “The Apex Court has spoken and that is the law.The law is final!”

Jubilation has since continued in the camp of supporters of the as there had been endless shooting of knockouts and firecrackers, in some parts of the city to celebrate the unprecedented victory of the ruling party in the state.

Meanwhile, the first thing the governor did after the Supreme Court judgment was to ask his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, to account for N3 trillion under his administration.