{"id":62132,"date":"2018-05-10T18:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T17:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62132"},"modified":"2018-05-10T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T17:02:39","slug":"the-people-amaechi-called-thugs-and-hoodlums-are-his-supporters-abe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/the-people-amaechi-called-thugs-and-hoodlums-are-his-supporters-abe\/","title":{"rendered":"The People Amaechi Called Thugs and Hoodlums Are His Supporters-Abe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">A governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">(APC) in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has declared that his<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">disagreement with leader of the party in the state and Minister of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is political.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Abe, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by his spokesperson, Parry<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Saroh Benson, said Amaechi has publicly declared that he will not support<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">his governorship aspirations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The senator said, &#8220;I am amused by some of these allegations and stories<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">making the rounds. For the records, the disagreement between me and the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Minister (Amaechi) is political. He is the leader of the party but he has<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">said publicly on several occasions that he can never support me.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;That means the entire country knows that he cannot pretend to be neutral<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">or an unbiased umpire in any matter in which my interest and the interests<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of those interested in me are concerned. Yet, as the leader it is his<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">responsibility to provide a level playing field for us all.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Abe, who is the senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">in the National Assembly, insisted that those who converged at the APC<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">secretariat in Port Harcourt on Friday, May 4, 2018, were not thugs but<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">members and supporters of the party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">He said, &#8216;The people he (Amaechi) is referring to as thugs and hoodlums<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">today were the same people that were his heroes yesterday. They were the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">people we used to blockade the Rivers State Judiciary when his government<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">was threatened. They were the people that slept for days outside the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Rivers State House of Assembly to protect his government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;A lot of them were members of Save Rivers Movement who risked and gave<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">their all to birth the APC in this state, and\u00a0 he knows a lot of them by<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">name, but today they are thugs and hoodlums because he is now the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">oppressor\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We are politicians, tomorrow when we need voters, who will these people<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">now branded as thugs be? People paid for forms, they had their tellers and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">no one was telling them what was going on, they besieged the state<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">secretariat for explanations.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Rather than the leader to come and address them they brought armed<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">policemen to open fire on innocent party men and women. That attack led to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the pandemonium at the secretariat.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;They were there from morning and there was no violence until the police<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">came and opened fire on APC members who were totally peaceful. 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