Ahead of
March 19, Re-Run Elections
…As Amaechi Threatens Fire and Brimstone
As former Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi carried his threat to set
Rivers State on fire during next Saturday’s National and State Assembly re-run
elections through the Rhythm 93.7 Radio programme, the viewpoint today, Rivers
State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it’s now crystal clear
to all Rivers people and Nigerians the source of the insecurity in some parts
of the State where Amaechi has planted his hatchet men.
The State PDP Chairman, Bro Felix Obuah reacting to the avalanche of
threats and unguarded utterances of Amaechi through a statement signed by his
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jerry Needam said now that the former
governor has unmasked himself as the sole sponsor of the skirmishes in parts of
the State, nobody is now left in doubt as to who is responsible for the so much
talked about insecurity in the State.
According to the State PDP boss, the Party is now vindicated of the
alarm raised over the plot by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the
Nigerian military to unleash mayhem on Rivers people so as to have their way during
the re-run election next Saturday.
Bro Obuah noted with disdain the open acceptance and declaration by
Amaechi, a close ally of President Muhammadu Buhari that he would personally
lead the battle on the re-run election day and dared anybody including the
State Governor to file out with his own gunmen.
Still bragging of his military back-up, Amaechi said the type of army
presence in the State on that election day will be such that had never been
witnessed in the State before, a plot the State PDP Chairman, Felix Obuah said
is the grand finale of all the acts of criminality and unrest being perpetrated
in the State before now, to find occasion to indict governor Nyesom Wike of
inefficiency.
Having failed in all these evil plans according to Obuah, Amaechi has
personally come home with his paid troops and heavily armed soldiers to shoot
at sight anybody seen or believed not to be ready to do his bidding during the
election.
Obuah said the police in the State and officials of the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC are not also safe as Amaechi has carried
his threat and ‘beware message’ from the APC-led federal government to these
innocent patriotic Nigerians doing their legitimate jobs to cow and intimidate
them so as to have his way.
The State PDP boss wondered what other reason Amaechi has for
disregarding and dismissing the entire Nigeria police force and its officials
in the State as grossly inefficient in controlling civil strife and criminality
in a State not as large as Kaduna, Lagos, Kano etc preferring the use of
soldiers whom he claimed are in his pocket if not to cause crisis in the State.
Obuah regretted that Rotimi Amaechi, a serving Minister for
transportation of the federal republic of Nigeria, a former Speaker of the
State House of Assembly and immediate past State governor is conducting himself
in such uncivil, irresponsible, militant and illiterate manner as to be using
vulgar and dishonourable language on air to respond to questions that border on
how he ran the State aground while serving as governor in the State that made
Rivers people reject him and all he stands for.
The State PDP Chairman, Felix Obuah however wants Amaechi to for once
forget about the use of compromised soldiers bought with the State resources he
stole and come out as an individual former governor to contest or campaign for
any contestant and see if he will not be beaten hands-down to prove his
unpopularity and unacceptability to the people.
“Nontheless, my candid advice to the Rivers people is to disregard Amaechi
and all his empty threats and come out enmasse on Saturday, March 19, to vote
for the PDP and all the PDP candidates as an appreciation and to give impetus
to Governor Nyesom Wike to continue to re-fix Rivers State from the damage done
by Amaechi.
The fire-and-brimstone threatened by Amaechi is mere face-saving and a
way of forcing himself back to the people and region he has ungraciously
betrayed over a pot of yam porridge.
We also wish to apologise to the police and other security agencies in
the State over Amaechi’s castigations and aspersions and enjoin them to
continue to do their work most patriotically and godly.
Amaechi’s arrogation of sweeping powers and the federal government might
is only but a ruse for he has no capacity to twist the arms of better informed
Rivers people and other Nigerians to impose his surrogate acolytes on our
people.
Rivers people must not go back to Egypt and Amaechi as far as we are
concerned and whatever he stands for, are gone forever.
As long as the re-run elections are free and fair, the PDP will still be
on top of the heap. We watch and pray”, the State PDP boss declared.
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