The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) response on Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s claim of being denied access to the Government House, Port Harcourt by the police as a justification of its funding by the state governor.
The party accused Amaechi of wasting billions of naira belonging to Rivers people on the formation, maintenance and funding of APC’s activities in his quest to secure a platform to actualise his 2015 political ambition.
The PDP in a statement signed by Jerry Needam, the Special Adviser on Media to the state Chairman, Mr. Felix Obuah, said it was unfortunate that the APC had reduced itself to a weapon of political war for Amaechi.
“The statement credited to the Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in respect of the claim by Amaechi of being stopped by the police from entering Government House is a product and manifestation of financial relationship between the governor and the opposition party.”
The party said it was not surprising that APC was attacking the police for doing their legitimate duty, stressing that the entire plan of action by the APC was founded on blackmail and destruction of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
It also called on Amaechi to stop squandering the resources of the state in pursing his ambition and blackmailing the president, the state police command and leaders of the PDP.
But in a related development, a faction of the state PDP loyal to the Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led New PDP has described as “shameful, gross ingratitude to God and show of frustration” the comments by the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, at Omoku last Sunday in which he claimed to know the PDP won the 2011 general election in the state.
The Publicity Secretary of the Chief Godspower Ake-led faction, Mr. George Ukwuoma-Nwogba, said in a statement yesterday in Port Harcourt, that Wike was not grateful to God for his being retained in Jonathan's cabinet “even when his abysmal performance is enough to get him out of the way.”
He said: “The Obuah-Wike team cannot win any election in Rivers State and for the record, the success recorded by the PDP during the last general election was based on the amiable and humane qualities of Amaechi and the other candidates the ruling party presented for the various elective positions. For us, therefore, Wike’s outburst shows how naïve and too forgetful he could be. May be, his memory is beginning to suffer sharp depreciation.”
He said it was Amaechi’s pleas that saved Wike from political death when the state women took to the streets accusing the minister of being a bad influence on youths and children in the state.
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