The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State does not deserve
the votes of the electorate in Rivers South West Senatorial Zone during
the rerun State and National Assembly elections scheduled to hold across
the State on Saturday, March 19, 2016.
The State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) made this
declaration on Tuesday, appealing to voters in the South West Senatorial
District of the State to repay PDP and Governor Nyesom Wike for their
atrocities against the Zone by massively rejecting PDP candidates and
casting their votes for APC candidates on Saturday.
“Chief Wike and PDP collaborated with the administration of former
president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, to cede the Rivers State oil wells in
the Kalabari Kingdom to Bayelsa State. As if that was not enough, Wike,
after imposing himself as governor, has within a short time turned the
South West into a killing field. We appeal to the good people of Rivers
South West Senatorial Zone to demonstrate their rejection of Wike and PDP
by overwhelmingly voting for APC candidates during Saturday’s rerun
elections,” Rivers APC said in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by the
State Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya.
The statement regretted that in less than ten months of their occupation
of the Government House, “Governor Wike and PDP have turned Rivers South
West Senatorial District into a place of mourning where innocent citizens
are slaughtered and burnt like goats on daily basis.”
Rivers APC noted that “Wike’s hatred for Rivers South West Senatorial
District has never been hidden, as it was the same Wike who frustrated all
the plans to construct the Trans-Kalabari Road.”
“If there is a time to reward both Wike and PDP for their evil acts
against this zone, the March 19th rerun election is the appropriate time.
We therefore plead with the voters in Rivers South West to vote in APC’s
Rt.Hon.Otelemaba Dan Amachree as their Senator. The party further stated
that with Rt. Hon. Otelemaba Daniel Amachree a one time Speaker of the
Rivers State House of Assembly and the longest serving member in any State
House of Assembly in Nigeria, having served his constituency a record four
times, from 1999 till 2015 coupled with his legendary contribution to the
nationally acclaimed stability of the Rivers State House of Assembly since
1999; this one time Chairman of South-South Speakers Conference in
recognition of his leadership acumen, Rivers State can be assured that
their feelings and interests will be highly protected and guided jealously
by this great lawmaker in the Upper Chamber.
The party urged the South West electorate to also vote for the party’s
candidate for the Federal House of Representatives, Hon Dr Dawari George
a one time Commissioner for Energy in Rivers State considering his feats
in the Federal House of Assembly and other APC candidates from this zone
that is the strong base of APC to bring to pass the prophecy foretold.
It listed the APC’s House of Reps candidates for Rivers South West as
1. Hon. Nname Robinson Ewor of Aelga/Abolga Federal Constituency,
2. Hon.Dr. Dawari George of Akulga/Asalga Federal Constituency,
3. Hon. Aye Atamah Pepple of Degema/Bonny Federal Constituency
As for the State House of Assembly, APC gave the names of the party’s
candidates as:
1. Barr. Eric Apia of Ahoada East I,
2. Hon. Nwuche Ibiso N.of Ahoada East II
3. Engr. Inye Jack of Akuku-Toru
4. Benibo Anabraba F. Of Akuku-Toru II
5. Hope Barango-Tariah of Asari-Toru I
6. Hon. Godstime E. Horsfall of Asari-Toru II
7. Hon. Henry Halliday of Bonny
8. Hon. Eldred T. L. Braide of Degema
9. Hon. Gift E. Wokocha of Onelga