-Commends Gov. Wike On
Acquisition Of 10 Gunboats For The Navy
The Chairman, Rivers
State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bro Felix Obuah, has
observed that the people of the State have benefited nothing from the All
Progressives Congress, APC, led government since it came to power at the
centre.
Describing the
development as unfortunate, height of irresponsibility and insensitivity to the
people’s expectations as well as a failure to deliver its statutory obligations
to the citizenry, the PDP Chairman expressed disappointment that since their
appointments, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and
Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA,
Dakuku Peterside, who are from the State, have also not been able to initiate
any project or empowerment scheme in the State.
Bro Obuah noted that
rather than serve as a blessing to the people of Rivers State the appointment
of the APC leaders from the State has become source of woes and anguish, as
they have only used such positions to cause crisis and division, doing everything
to blackmail the government in the State in their quest to force themselves on
the people undemocratically.
It is sad, Obuah
emphasized, that while APC leaders from other States of the federation are
making efforts, using their positions to do something positive and
developmental in their respective States, our brothers in the same party, who
are even holding top positions at the centre are only bent on destroying our
State, always igniting crises and misinforming the good people of Rivers State
on issues of development, policies and actions of government.
Stop the noise and
desist from causing problems in Rivers State, deliver meaningful projects and
empowerment schemes to the people, the PDP urged the APC top government
appointees of Rivers State extraction.
By her strategic
location and economic base, Rivers State occupies a significant position as the
leading live-wire of our nation’s economy, which statutorily and based on the
principle of derivation and federal character, ought to be benefitting greatly
from the government at the centre in addition to the share due her.
Regrettably, Rivers
State today is one of the few States that has not been accorded her right place
by the APC government as a result of continued and deliberate denial and
suppressive actions by even those who have benefitted a lot from her treasures.
It is on the strength
of this that we charge the duo of Amaechi and Dakuku to have a rethink, by stopping
the fight of attrition against the government and people of the State and join
hands to develop it and to influence federal projects into the State as their
lawful responsibility.
The PDP is afraid that
if about two years into the life of the APC government at the national level
and its leaders have not been able to show any project on ground in the State,
the remaining months ahead might be impossible for them to make any reasonable
mark, as all we see them doing now is playing politics with everything,
including security and development of the people. Time is running out, Obuah
reminded Amaechi and Dakuku.
The PDP therefore,
commended the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike for committing himself
and the Rivers State government to ensuring peace, security and development in
the State in the face of apparent efforts to distract him by leaders of the
opposition party in the State, the APC.
Bro Obuah particularly
lauded the decision and action of Governor Wike in acquiring 10 gunboats for
the Nigerian Navy, which will be used for security patrol on the Waterways, and
hope that on the day of handing over the boats, the NIMASA Director-General and
Transportation Minister would be invited to participate in the commissioning
proceedings, even though Amaechi wasted eight years in office without procuring
a single gunboat for the Navy.
Signed:
Jerry
Needam
Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity to
Bro.
Felix Obuah, PDP Chairman, Rivers State.
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