{"id":28400,"date":"2014-06-25T06:06:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T05:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=28400"},"modified":"2014-06-26T14:34:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:34:51","slug":"pdp-can-never-win-rivers-state-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/pdp-can-never-win-rivers-state-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Can Never Win Rivers State \u2014APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u2022Says loss of Ekiti will make party stronger<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has dismissed<br \/>\nas a fluke, last Saturday\u2019s dislodgement of the party by the Peoples<br \/>\nDemocratic Party (PDP) during the governorship election in Ekiti State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis development, which was unexpected, does not portend anything any<br \/>\ndanger for the APC in 2015, especially in Rivers State. The Ekiti election<br \/>\nhas come and gone and we have learnt our lessons which will ensure better<br \/>\noutings in other elections. That election will go a long way to unite and<br \/>\nstrengthen us the more to present a better APC to Nigerians for the battle<br \/>\nto rescue and reposition Nigeria gets hot,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ikanya, who was responding to enquiries on the fate of APC in view of<br \/>\nwhat happened in Ekiti, emphatically declared in a statement he issued<br \/>\ntoday in Port Harcourt: \u201cIt is erroneous to think that what happened in<br \/>\nEkiti affects or will affect Rivers State politics come 2015. The factors<br \/>\nthat led us losing Ekiti are well known but totally different from the<br \/>\nreality in Rivers State. No matter the challenges or odds, Rivers remains<br \/>\nan APC State. I am supremely confident that the good people of Rivers<br \/>\nState will renew their covenant with APC with a landslide in 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rivers APC Chairman gave an idea of how the party would run the 2015<br \/>\nelections and obliterate PDP in the state. \u201cOne thing going for us in<br \/>\nRiver State is that we have a President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP whose<br \/>\nhatred for our state and her people is legendary not minding that he is<br \/>\nfrom our sister state Bayelsa and our in-law and we gave him the highest<br \/>\nnumber of votes that made him the President. Our campaign strategy will be<br \/>\ncentered on this hatred, which has manifested in the hounding of Governor<br \/>\nChibuike Amaechi, the ceding of our oil wells to Bayelsa and Abia states<br \/>\nand refusal to direct Akwa Ibom to pay us the proceeds of our oil wells<br \/>\nshe kept for many years. Mr. President has also refused to site any<br \/>\nmeaningful project in Rivers State, so how can we support him or any PDP<br \/>\ncandidate in 2015?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn any case, the feats of the Amaechi administration are enough to give<br \/>\nus victory in future elections. These feats, which are well known, include<br \/>\nmaking Port Harcourt the World Book Capital City, eradication of<br \/>\nmilitancy, dogged fight for the oil wells and other rights of Rivers State<br \/>\nand her people, as well as award-winning achievements in Education,<br \/>\nAgriculture, Health, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ikanya said that, in addition to all these, \u201cwe will ask the good<br \/>\npeople of Rivers State to make their choice of the characters and vision<br \/>\nof those in PDP (insecurity, ungodly, etc) and the vision and characters<br \/>\nin APC (godliness, security and concern for the future of our state).<br \/>\nThese are the issues for Rivers State to use to decide which of the<br \/>\nparties governs River State come 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by advising APC faithful in the state not to panic or fear<br \/>\nabout the future of the party, as \u201cRivers people have since adopted APC as<br \/>\nthe party of their choice and there is nothing the doomed PDP or any other<br \/>\nparty can do about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022Says loss of Ekiti will make party stronger The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has dismissed as a fluke, last Saturday\u2019s dislodgement of the party by the Peoples&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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