PDP to Rivers elders, others: “Ignore APC’s calumny against Wike”

The chairman of the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Felix Obuah, has called on the elders, traditional rulers, and religious leaders in the state to ignore what he described as calumnious statements allegedly being made by the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Governor Nyesom Wike.

Referring to an APC statement signed by Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the Senior Special Assistant of the party’s chairman on Media and Publicity, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, in which the party urged Rivers Elders, Traditional and Religious leaders to call Governor Wike to order, Chief Obuah said that the party aimed at destroying the hard-earned reputation and well deserved national and global commendations of the Wike-led government.

Chief Obuah stated that APC’s position against Governor Wike was “a product of grave ignorance, as well as one of the series of inciting actions of the leadership of the party, borne out of hate and resolve to pull down the State at all costs.”

He continued: “The obvious ignorance and deliberate ploy by the leadership of the party to distort facts and undermine the enthronement of good governance presently in Rivers State should be of concern to well meaning Rivers men and women.”

The PDP state chairman said it would amount to fulfilling the expectations and ambition of the APC leaders, responding to the alleged malicious issues raised in the said publication and called on the highly revered leaders of the state to continue to support the Wike administration.

Chief Obuah expressed disappointment over the alleged manner the former of the state, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and his team had continued “to conduct themselves as unpatriotic citizens” and had also deliberately refused to appreciate the good works Governor Wike had done in the state in two years.

He noted that the APC leaders ought to commend Governor Wike “for transforming the State, making it a project site, even when he met an empty treasury and a looted Government House, bequeathed to him.”

While assuring the elders, leaders, and other good people of the State that neither Governor Wike nor the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party would be distracted or rest on their oars in giving Rivers people good governance, Chief Obuah said the only “usefulness of the APC statement is the fact that Rivers people now know their true enemies; those who are bent on destroying the State.”

Continuing, he stated: “It is honourable to say the truth and to admit guilt. Rather than admitting that Governor Wike has properly utilized the lean internally generated revenue and federal allocation, compared to what the State got under Rotimi Amaechi, the APC leaders prefer to distort facts and malign the performing Governor, in addition to always creating acts of insecurity in the state.”

The PDP chairman, therefore, called on leaders of the APC, to desist from “peddling falsehood, causing crisis and disaffection, but to find time to go round the State, even the hinterland, to be fully informed of the great transformation in infrastructure, human and institutional capacity development Governor Wike has done in the State, cutting across the 23 LGAs.”