Rivers APC blames Wike, PDP for loss of oil wells to Bayelsa, other states

By Ihesiulo Grace

30 January 2017

Politics

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Rivers State Chapter, has heaped the blame for the loss of oil wells formerly belonging to the state to the neighbouring states of Bayelsa, Abia, and Akwa Ibom.

The party, in a statement issued on Sunday in Port Harcourt berated Wike and the state PDP for not only allegedly being instrumental to the loss of the oil wells, but for attempting to shift the blame to former governor Chibuike Amaechi over what it described as an unfortunate development.

The statement which was issued from the office of the state Chairman of the APC and signed by his Senior Special Aide on Media and Public Affairs, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, expressed shock at the stand of the PDP, alleging that Governor Wike and the PDP connived with President Goodluck Jonathan, the then President of the country, to cede the oil wells to other states.

Dr. Ibiamu stated: “We are shocked by Wike and PDP’s brazen attempt to shift the blame to Rt. Hon. Amaechi via a statement issued by one Jerry Needam titled, ‘Oil Well Politics: Accept your empty promises, PDP tells Amaechi, APC’.

“This simply shows how shameless both Wike and Rivers PDP leadership can be. It was Nyesom Wike and his confused PDP members who collaborated with then President Jonathan Goodluck to cede oil wells belonging to Rivers State to neighbouring Bayelsa, Abia, and Akwa Ibom states to show their disdain for Rivers State and her people.

“Instead of hiding their faces in shame, they have the audacity to remind Rivers State and her people at this period of their golden age celebration, of how they wickedly connived with the then PDP-led Federal Government to deny Rivers State her entitlements as an oil producing state just because of their hatred for Amaechi,” he continued.

The Rivers APC lambasted Governor Wike, Rivers PDP Chairman, Chief Felix Obuah, and others who, they alleged, “had made politics to lose its meaning in Rivers and dissipating their energies on a vain plot to pull down Amaechi, who did all he could to give Rivers State purposeful leadership and is now serving Nigeria at the Federal level in the capacity of Minister of Transportation.”

Dr. Ibiamu said that the APC was glad that the people of Rivers State were too intelligent to be swayed by those who allegedly never meant well for the State, adding: “It is a pity that some PDP leaders who are desirous to milk the Rivers State treasury dry are attempting to compare Wike’s administration with that of Amaechi, forgetting that you cannot compare light with darkness.”