Arrangements have reached an advanced stage by the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State to receive about 10,000 members of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who have indicated interest in joining APC.
Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, disclosed this in a statement
issued Tuesday in Port Harcourt.
“Rivers APC is pleased to welcome these patriots in advance
and to assure them that they have a found a home in the party of liberation. We
are happy with their decision that Rivers State must not be allowed to play
opposition politics in the incoming Federal Government of General Muhammadu
Buhari and have fixed Friday, 10th April, 2015, to formally receive them at the
APC State Secretariat at Forces Avenue, Port Harcourt,” Ikanya said.
He described the decision of the mammoth crowd of PDP
members to defect to APC as equivalent to the breaking of PDP's backbone in
Rivers State. “With this development, it would be safe to say that Rivers State
PDP Leader and gubernatorial candidate, Chief Nyesome Wike, is now a commander
without troops. Wike is irreversibly on his way to political oblivion and his
fate shall become sealed on April 11 when he will be trounced by our
governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, during the governorship polls,” Ikanya
added.
The Rivers APC Chairman listed PDP National Vice-Chairman,
Chief Uche Secondus, who was one of the principal actors who saw to the failure
of President Goodluck Jonathan's administration and his awful performance in
the March 28 presidential polls; his cousin, Engr. Tele Ikuru, the Deputy
Governor of Rivers State who miscalculated and recently decamped to the sinking
ship of PDP; and Rivers PDP Chairman, Bro. Felix Obuah, among other fallen
political heavyweights in Rivers who will join Wike into political oblivion
fromApril 11. “These are men who symbolise injustice and whose exaggerated
sense of political importance has deceived them into promoting the candidature
of a man who is unmarketable even among his kinsmen,” Ikanya said.
Lambasting Wike, the APC State Chairman said: “Chief Wike's
adventure into the gubernatorial race, apart from being immoral, was
principally used to sow seeds of discord between President Jonathan and
Governor Chibuike Amaechi, resulting to the failure of President Jonathan to
win re-election. As we have often made clear, Chief Wike's guber aspiration is
dead on arrival as Rivers people will not allow two Ikwerre sons to govern the
State for an unbroken 16 years – which would be the case if Wike is allowed to
succeed Amaechi.
“Besides, Rivers is a Christian State and we know that Chief
Wike is not a Christian. We know the dangers an administration such as his
portends for the State, so Wike stands no chance whatsoever on April 11.”
Rivers APC congratulated President Jonathan and The First
Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, for distancing themselves from Wike as he is bad
company.
“We wish to remind the good people of Rivers State that
voting for PDP on Saturday is tantamount to voting for cultism, occultism,
promotion of violence and sharing of our common patrimony amongst PDP
Chieftains. It would also mean electing a government that will be
confrontational to the APC Government at the centre. We trust that Rivers
voters are too intelligent to make such a costly mistake,” Ikanya stated.
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