By: Felix Ikpotor
Following the clamour by local council chairmen in Rivers State for re-election in next year’s local council polls, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state has declared that any council chairman whose developmental achievement falls below and acceptablerating would not have the support of the party in the state.
The state party chairman, Ambassador Desmond Akawor, gave the warning after he received the Chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area, Hon Samuel Nwanosike and his cabinet at the state party secretariat in PortHarcourt.
Akawor said, “local government council is not just a place where to go and share money and disappear at the end of the month without having something to show.”
According to him, the party in the state will not support any council chairman coming up for second tenure, if his performance is nothing to reckon with in the area.
He commended the Ikwere local government chairman and his cabinet for their commitment in developing the area.
Akawor encouraged him to maintain the developmental tempo, saying that the only way for achieving reward is hardwork.
In another development, the Rivers State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ambassador Desmond Akawor, has warned that the party in the state will not tolerate any ambition that will destroy the party.
He gave the warning in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt last weekend.
According to him, some persons aspiring for the forthcoming local government elections in the state were taking it as a do or die affair.
“We as a party will not tolerate any action that will destroy the party, we want the party to be stronger and united, we don’t want any person to divide the party because of their personal ambitions,” he said.
