Jonathan's Supporters In Rivers Defect To APC

Barely four weeks after its merger with New
Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), the All
Progressives Congress has effectively
dislodged the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) at the grassroots in Rivers State.
PDP was the ruling party in the state until
November 26 when it suddenly became
the opposition party following the
departure of Governor Chibuike Amaechi
and other erstwhile PDP leaders in the
state, who became members of the APC
by virtue of the party’s merger with
nPDP, of which the Governor was a key
leader.
The mother of all rallies will hold on
Monday, December 23, at the Liberation
Stadium, Port Harcourt, to be witnessed
by Governor Amaechi, all National
Assembly members from the state, all
members of the State Executive Council,
stakeholders and some of the National
Officers of the party.
Key actors of President
Goodluck Jonathan and
Nyesom Wike’s faction of the
PDP in the State are expected
to declare for APC during the
rally. According to some of
them, “Our eyes have been
opened to see the evil that PDP
as a party portends so far the
development of Rivers State is
concerned.”
Indications that the people at the
grassroots have wholeheartedly
embraced APC emerged during the on-
going tour of local governments in the
state by the APC Interim State EXCO
headed by the Interim State Chairman,
Chief (Dr.) Davies Ibiamu Ikanya. All the
Local Government Areas visited saw the
massive turnout of former PDP members
and leaders, who trooped out to receive
the APC delegation and to pledge their
loyalty to the party.
All the Local Government Council
Chairmen in the State have declared for
APC with all their Councillors when they
paid a solidarity visit to the APC Chairman
recently at the State Secretariat in Port
Harcourt.
Commenting on the development, an
elated Dr. Ikanya said: “The massive
turnout of Rivers State people to receive
us in all the local government areas
toured provides irrefutable proof that the
masses of Rivers State have fully
embraced APC as the party of their
choice. This is not surprising in view of
the total neglect of the state by the PDP-
led Federal Government at the centre that
apart from ceding most of Rivers State’s
oil wells to Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Abia
states, the PDP-led Federal Government
has ensured that the state lacks every
Federal Government project since the
inception of the present PDP Government
at the centre for reasons of which we are
yet to be informed.
“Without mincing words, the PDP
Government at the centre is the greatest
enemy of Rivers State as the government
is hell-bent to ensure that we are denied
every facet of meaningful development,
including denying us a water project
initiated by the Government of Rt. Hon.
Amaechi to demonstrate the high point of
inhumanity against the people of Rivers
State.”
Ikanya lamented that “because of Rivers
State, the East-West Road and the
Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway have
been abandoned just to ensure that the
Rivers State people are punished for
standing beside their God-given
Governor who has demonstrated
commitment and love towards the
emancipation and development of the
state.”
He urged the people of Rivers State to
see those promoting PDP in the state as
enemies of the state, assuring that the
Government of APC both in the state and
at the centre come 2015 would not only
protect the interests of the state but also
see that all the wicked polices against
the state by the PDP-led government are
reversed.
The APC Interim State Chairman said that
“by accepting the APC revolution, the
people of Rivers State have taken their
fate in their own hands and collectively
we shall secure our freedom and
reposition the state to the enviable
position that God has destined for it.”
Dr. Ikanya described those criticizing
Governor Amaechi for joining APC as
misguided politicians who have nothing to
offer to the state and who do not
appreciate all that Governor Amaechi
suffered and sacrificed in order for sanity
to be sustained in PDP which President
Jonathan, Bamanga Tukur and their
surrogates in Rivers State ensured that
he was frustrated out of the party.
“Governor Amaechi has no alternative
than joining APC and by 2015 both the
people of Rivers State and some of these
misguided politicians will come to
appreciate the wisdom in the political
wizardry of Governor Amaechi in this
regard,” the APC Interim State Chairman
said.

Long Life APC!

Long Life Rivers State!!

Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
SSA Media and Public Affairs to the
Interim State Chairman, APC Rivers State