The Senator representing the Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the
National Assembly, Magnus Ngei Abe has called on the Minister of
Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and his supporters in Rivers State to stop
abusing President Muhammadu Buhari over the predicament of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the State.
He said that Nigerians have of course heard and ignored stories of the
abuses rained on the President on a daily basis by those who are supposed
to be his supporters and promoters in Rivers State.
Abe in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by his spokesperson, Parry
Saroh Benson recalled that during the party’s Presidential campaign in
Port Harcourt, not a kind word was said about the President for his
numerous achievements in Rivers State.
Senator Abe who was reacting to comments on the Director-General of the
Amaechi/Cole campaign, Hon. Chidi Loyd on a live TV programme on Thursday,
saying such habit of blaming everybody for the party’s woes must stop.
The statement reads, “I was visibly shocked when Hon. Chidi Lloyd, the
Director-General of the Amaechi/Cole campaign went on Channels TV to
openly abuse the President and blamed President Buhari for the electoral
challenges facing the APC in Rivers State”.
“This is most unfortunate. This habit of blaming everyone else for our
woes must stop immediately. We had a needless and senseless power tussle
in the party even when everyone agreed that the minister was the leader,
yet that was Senator Abe’s fault, (because Senator Abe has a gubernatorial
ambition as if there is any member of a political party in Nigeria without
an ambition).
“APC members in Rivers State went to court for a minor issue that could
have been resolved internally in ten minutes, they were accused of being
sponsored by Governor Wike.
“The APC leadership went to physically attack the Courts and openly
disobeyed Court orders and the Courts responded by axing the candidates
for being products of that disobedience. The judges were accused of being
PDP and working for Wike.
“Now you have gone into an election for which you are clearly
ill-prepared, and yet the president gave you everything. Rivers APC had
NDDC, Railway, NPA, Shippers Council; Ministry of Transportation, Police,
Army, Air Force, DSS and yet you could not win because the INEC REC is
PDP. INEC Chairman is PDP, haba!”
“Now we are blaming the President, is the President also working with
Wike? If we had taken time to remind Rivers people of the uncommon love
that Buhari has shown to Rivers people in the Ogoni cleanup, the
Bodo-Bonny Road, approval for new higher institutions in Rivers State,
appointments of our sons and daughters into positions of trust and so on”.
The Senator further said, “We would have made more sense to Rivers people
than the failed campaign for personal supremacy by the leader of the party
in the state. The president even went as far as risking his reputation and
integrity to support the APC in Rivers State more than any other state in
Nigeria.
“In playing our usual blame game let us leave President Buhari out of it
and focus on the real issues facing the party in Rivers State,” Abe
stated.