Rivers rerun: APC sure of victory in Ogoni – Amaechi

Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt.

Optimistic of a landslide victory in the December 10 rerun election in Rivers State, the Minister of Transportation and leader of Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the party was sure of clearing the votes in Ogoni land.

This is just as the governor of the state, Chief Nyesom Wike, has declared that the perceived enemies of the state would be disappointed by the outcome of the election, despite their alleged negative plots against the state.

Governor Wike was speaking during the 2016 Super Sunday Service of the Christ Apostolic Church at Emohua, in Emohua Local Government Area of the state.

He noted that the enemies of Rivers State are working hard to stoke violence in areas where the rerun elections would hold.

“I have to come to formally report to God that the enemies of the state are back. The way they were humiliated in 2015 and March 19, 2016 is the way they would be humiliated on December 10, 2016,” he said.

However, speaking at a rally in Bera community in Gokana Local Government Area, on Saturday, Amaechi said winning in Ogoni and Rivers South East Senatorial District, where Senator Magnus Abe would contest the election, had already been foreclosed considering the support the party is said to be enjoying in the district.

According to him, the contest would exist only in Ikwerre and Ahoada areas.

“If there is one place that APC should win it is Ogoni. But Wike says he must win here. He is not God and since he is not God, he will fail. The battle is not here at all. The battle is in Ikwerre and Ahoada axis. So, he had better forgotten here,” the transport minister stated.

The former governor said that the support of the Ogoni district stemmed from both developmental projects he cited in the area and appointments given to sons and daughters in the area while he was governor.

He, therefore, charged Governor Wike to equal his achievements in Ogoni land or supersede them, as he reminisced the number of indigent persons in the area given scholarships to study abroad while he was governor.