Leave Chibuike Amaechi alone, PDP is basket of deplorable in Rivers state – APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Rivers State on Tuesday described the Niger Delta Peace Initiative of the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, as another hidden device by the former governor to test the waters for his political ambition in 2019.
Dismissing the purported Peace Initiative as a ruse, the state chairman of the PDP, Bro Felix Obuah, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jerry Needam, described the forum as an assemblage of All Progressives Congress, APC, members put together to try to see if Amaechi’s “huge credibility problem could be redeemed”.
Obuah said it is laughable that Amaechi, who he accused of being central to the feelings of discontent in the state and indicted by the Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry, is talking of peace rather than show remorse and return what was looted from the state.
He maintained that the people of Niger Delta whom Amaechi, “has grossly betrayed can never be deceived again and need not be told that the purported Peace Initiative is true to speculations, the mechanism Amaechi hopes to use to actualize his 2019 political ambition.
“Though, he is daydreaming, we are however, shocked that Amaechi, who has shamelessly brought so much insult to the people of Niger Delta, playing a major role in pushing out the son of the Niger Delta as the President of this country, in preference to his new found love, and killer of his kinsmen (no thanks to the military invasion of Rivers State will against all odds be nursing the ambition to launch a come back to the region after inflicting so much pains and agony on the people.”
“How can one be calling for peace and meeting for peace outside his fatherland and behind the people for whom the peace is meant?” Obuah queried, stressing that “Amaechi and by extension, the APC should come off this childish trick because the end of the ill-conceived plot is already known.
“While we are not averse to peace in our land, we believe such pretentious peace agents, such enemies of our people yesterday and apparently unrepentant enemies of today should show demonstrable repentance, return the loot taken from our collective treasury, dissociate themselves from those out there to annihilate our people because of our God-given resource and be willing and ready to key into the peace efforts of the State governments in the Niger Delta,” the Rivers PDP chairman stated.
Meanwhile, the attention of the Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), has been drawn to a press statement by the Chairman of Rivers State Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Felix Obuah and signed by his media aide, Jerry Needam claiming that the recently convened Niger Delta Stakeholders Engagement Meeting under the auspices of The Initiative for Peace, Governance and Development of the Niger Delta was a platform for the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to burnish his political agenda.
In a statement signed by APC State Publicity Secretary, Chris Finebone says “ordinarily, the temptation is to ignore this PDP basket of deplorables who delight themselves with all manner of obscene immoderation every now and then. However, it is important to protect innocent Rivers people and Nigerians from the malevolent propaganda these diminished characters shamelessly place in public domain by rolling back their mischief with discreet facts.
“A cursory reading of the PDP statement reveals an incoherent and disjointed write-up that can only come from authors who so urgently require medical look in by the best hands that can be found around here.
“The few issues that can be pieced together from the statement point to the fact that Felix Obuah and the PDP in Rivers State are still hurting from the exit of former President Jonathan form power. The APC would like to advise the PDP people to take another look at the national voting demographics of 2015 elections and it will dawn on them that nothing (including massively rigged votes from Rivers State) would have saved the former President from defeat.
“Much more than that, the statement, in some ways, underscores the nexus between the hurting of 2015 election to wailing wailers, the spate of destruction of oil installations by the Avengers and other restive youths in the Niger Delta and the recent blowing up of Shell trunk line to Bonny export Terminal. Little wonder the PDP in Rivers State fails to see the need for peace which the Abuja meeting was meant to bring about in the Niger Delta. Is anyone still wondering those behind the ongoing bombing and bursting of pipelines in the Niger Delta?
“The only other issue that can be deduced from the infantile 7-paragraph statement makes reference to betrayal of the Niger Delta by the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi because the latter joined the APC and contributed his bit to the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
“It is sad that an individual that sold his soul to Satan and connived with Nyesom Wike to steal a political party structure in broad daylight could muster the courage to talk about betrayal. What betrayal can be more than that exhibited by a man that was shot and left to die but was rescued and flown abroad to save his life and the same man turned around later to bite the hand that God used to save him? Indeed, Felix Obuah should not forget to tell his children the true story of his miserable life.
“For the avoidance of doubt, let it be known to all that Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as governor of Rivers State never had differences with former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan over personal matters. Whether on the vexed issue of NLNG Train 7 which the former President refused to approve or the matter of Soku Oil Wells and others that were taken and handed to Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Abia States and many other touchy issues, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi was only driven by the Oath of Office he took to protect lives and property of Rivers people as governor. No more!
“If really the issue is about betrayal, it was indeed former President Goodluck Jonathan that betrayed Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, Rivers people and Niger Deltans. His betrayal is typified by the state of the East West Road during his administration, the Bomu-Bonny Road, the Port Harcourt International Airport, Soku Oil Wells, refusal to refund N105billion spent on Federal Roads by the Rivers State Government and many other issues too numerous to be listed here.
“On the ridiculous reference to Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi’s supposed ambition for 2019, such contemplation only exists in the terribly deluded mind and helplessly battered imagination of Felix Obuah and his cohorts. Rt. Hon. Chibuke Rotimi Amaechi does not harbour nor has he told anyone that he is nursing any political ambition come 2019. That is not how the Minister is wired politically.
“The APC wishes to advise Felix Obuah and the PDP to find a more meritorious past time to engage themselves in and subdue the cheap craving to drag an innocent man down – a task that is clearly beyond their station and reach”.
