Rivers PDP Chairman says APC’s protest in P/Harcourt coup against constituted authority

The Rivers State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Felix Obuah, has described as a coup against a constituted authority the Monday protest in Port Harcourt by factional members of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The State PDP Chairman said that the protest, dubbed ‘Operation Wike Must Go’, was aimed at causing breach of the law and order in the State by the organisers.

Chief Obuah in a statement through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Jerry Needam, said “the protest was rather a gathering of war mongers allegedly at the instance of the Transportation Minister, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to re-sharpen his arsenals and instruments of war for the March 9th, Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the State.”

He alleged that “the purported protest from the beginning to the end was fraught with beating of war drums and issuance of threats of bloodletting similar to the ones preceding the Presidential and National Assembly elections which equally resulted in the killings of innocent Rivers people in the State.”

Chief Obuah stated: “All these threats and incitements were being dished out before security agencies who have turned their eyes away while evil was being perpetuated against the very people they are employed to protest.”

Arguing that enough means and outlets have been provided in the electoral law to vote for or against any candidate, Chief Obuah said that “to gather miscreants and political thugs to incite them against a sitting Governor is not only undemocratic, but criminal and evil, and is actional per se.”

The PDP Chairman said: “For some people to allow themselves to continue to be used by a feudal lord that has no regard for the lives of his people nor regret for those he caused their blood to be wasted is to say the least, foolishness and self dehumanization.”

The Rivers State PDP Chairman, reminded the security agencies that their service was to the people and not to a few who, he said, had arrogated to themselves the status of an institution, saying, “service to any other than the mass of Rivers citizens and Nigerians in general is a betrayal of trust and disservice to the citizenry.”