…As
Rivers PDP Chairman, Bro. Felix Obuah Calls APC ‘Lie Lie Party’
…Declares
Thursday As Reception Day For 8,000 APC Decampees
Scores
of members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Asari-Toru and Degema
Local Government Areas of Rivers State who dumped the party in preference to
the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have told of the ugly experience
encountered in the hand of their erstwhile leader and former Governor of the
State, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi at his abode in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
Speaking
at the PDP Secretariat in Port Harcourt where the decampees were received on
Thursday, the leader of the APC decampees and former leader of the Asari-Toru
Legislative Assembly, Hon. Orolosama Amachree accused Amaechi of coercing all
‘elected’ Chairmen and Councilors of the APC into instituting legal action
against the government of Chief (Barr) Nyesom Ezenwo Wike as a gimmick to make
the State ungovernable.
According
to Amachree whose scores of supporters turned the occasion into gyration amid
singing and dancing, the violent activities of former Chairman of Asari-Toru
Council, Ojukaye Flag Amachree had plunged the area into crisis which rendered
his followers homeless, prompting them to flee to Abuja where they hoped to get
succor from Amaechi who is Rivers APC leader and Minister for Transportation.
“But
when we met Amaechi, our leader in Abuja and told him of our predicament and
requested his assistance to get accommodation, he bluntly told us “If you don’t
have accommodation why did you have to come to me. Am I the landlord of Abuja?” said Amachree
who is reputed for his prowess in grassroots politics.
He
stated that these actions among others underscored their resolution to dump the
APC which deceitfully promised to bring what he called a ‘fraudulent change’ to
Nigerians.
“I
was not convinced by anyone to decamp.
No one gave me money and no one lobbied for me and my brothers and
sisters to leave the APC. PDP was my
root and because I was deceived to join the APC, I have retraced my step and I
am back home” he said, amid ovation.
He
further disclosed of several meetings held by the APC where the Minister of
Transportation had warned and threatened severe consequences for anyone who dares
to defect to the PDP, stating that rather than carry out promises made to
better their welfare, the Minister had continued to feed them with lies.
Among
those who joined Amachree to the PDP are the APC Assistant Women Leader in
Asalga, Vice Chairman of PDP, Hon. Briggs and other Ward Exco members.
Another
‘big fish’ caught by the PDP dragnet was the Vice Chairman of APC in Degema
Local Government Area, Hon. Samuel Ikiroma who stormed the PDP Secretariat with
hundreds of supporters.
The
soft-talking APC leader who handed his councillorship certificate of return to
State PDP Chairman, Bro. Felix Obuah for destruction, said he was now enjoying
genuine peace since he took the decision to dump the APC.
“I
am not defecting but coming back to my home.
APC is nothing but a deceit and pretence. I have never had peace while in APC but ever
since I took the decision last Monday, I now have better peace and rest of
mind” he confessed.
Receiving
the decampees, Rivers PDP Chairman, Bro. Felix Obuah commended Governor Nyesom
Wike for creating the enabling environment which had triggered the gale of
defection of APC members into the PDP.
“If
Governor Wike had not judiciously used the resources of the State to the
benefit of all, there would not have been this strong conviction to join a
progressive movement like the PDP.
“Amaechi
and his cohorts sold the idea of what he called ‘change’ to hapless people and
they fell for it, thinking it is change but not knowing it is nothing but
danger”, Obuah said and gave assurance that all the decampees would be given
fair and equitable treatment as those already in the PDP.
He
said that a better acronym for the APC would have been ‘Lie Lie Party’
considering the tissue of lies which the party has continued to sell to Rivers
people.
Amid
chants of ‘ Mba Anabara Agu’, Bro. Obuah
further assured them that they have missed and lost nothing by leaving the APC,
adding that the performing Governor of the State would stop at nothing to
accommodate all of them.
He
explained that Governor Wike would have personally received them on the
occasion but for an unavoidable assignment which took him to Abuja. He however announced that the Governor would
be on hand to receive over 8,000 decampees from the APC on Thursday, April 13,
2017 in Port Harcourt.
Signed:
Jerry
Needam
Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity
To
The State PDP Chairman, Bro. Felix Obuah
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