Trump: People’s victory over forces of propaganda — Gov. Wike

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has described the election of Donald Trump in Tuesday’s United States presidential poll as victory of the people over the forces of propaganda and lies.
Wike stated this when he addressed journalists in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, his Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, said in a statement.
The governor said that despite the “concocted opinion polls thrown at the people daily by the mainstream media”, the people stood by their beliefs and convictions.
According to him, the emergence of Trump indicated that the power of the people will always triumph over the forces of propaganda and manipulation.
Wike said that the people of Rivers State could easily relate with Trump’s victory because over the last two years, they had been objects of negative false propaganda.
This, he said, did not deter them from standing on their ground to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party.
He urged the media to redefine its mode of operations to report the reality on ground instead of attempting to promote vested interests through the publication and broadcast of false propaganda.
wike congratulated the incoming US president, wishing him a successful term in office.
Trump, who ran on the platform of the Republican Party, will become the 45th president after a surprise victory over his Democratic rival, Hilary Clinton.
The election was preceded by media forecasts and polls that favoured Clinton, a former First Lady and US Secretary of State.