The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State
has berated the State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for
sponsoring political killings in the State and rushing to court to stop the
sitting of the Commission of Enquiry set up by the State Government to
investigate the killings.
“The news of the suit brought by Rivers PDP before
Justice H. A. Nganjiwa of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt
seeking to restrain the Commission of Enquiry set up by the Rivers State
Government to investigate the political killings in the State did not come to
us a surprise as we have been consistent in identifying PDP as the sponsor of
these despicable murders. In reality, the suit is nothing but a self indictment
by the Rivers State PDP, which has by so doing erased any reasonable doubt that
it is behind the political violence in the State that has sent close to 100
innocent APC members to their untimely grave,” Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies
Ibiamu Ikanya, said on Sunday morning.
Ikanya, however, expressed disappointment that the revered
Justice Nganjiwa fell for PDP's antics by granting the restraining order sought
by the murderous party.
“We hold Justice Nganjiwa in high esteem and we wish
to appeal to him to vacate this restraining order at the next adjourned date to
enable the Commission of Enquiry do its work. We are talking of human life and
we respectfully appeal to His Lordship not to create an escape route for
murderers to get away with their atrocities,” Ikanya said in a statement issued
in the state capital, Port Harcourt.
He expressed confidence that Rivers PDP's desperate
efforts to evade justice and to subvert the will of Rivers people and heighten
insecurity, kidnapping and other criminal activities through the
instrumentality of the court would eventually fail.
Rivers APC sympathized with the people of the State
over their present ordeal, as the State is today back to the era of insecurity,
kidnapping and killings due to the desperation of PDP to capture power at all
cost. “All these are evils which the APC Government of Rt. Hon. Chibuike
Amaechi eradicated, only for them to be brought back by the Rivers State PDP
leadership. We appeal to the good people of Rivers State to endure this sad
development for the few months PDP will be in power before it is kicked out through
legal means,” the statement said.
“The good people of Rivers State, particularly the
survivors of those murdered in cold blood by PDP agents, can be assured that
this evil party can only delay justice but cannot stop the avenging of the shed
innocent blood. On our part, we are determined to ensure that justice is done
in this matter and people who do not meant well for our State are not allowed
to govern us no matter the conspiracy of the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) and the outgoing PDP-controlled Presidency,” Rivers APC
added.
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