Plead with President to remember
Amaechi's contributions to his victory
Non-indigenes in Rivers State under the aegis of Endangered Non Indigenes
Forum in Rivers State (EINFRS) have cried out to President Muhammadu Buhari,
pleading with him to come to their rescue in following the threat by Governor
Nyesom Wike to crack down on them as part of his determination to deal
ruthlessly with associates and loyalties of the immediate past Governor of the
State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. The SOS came on the heels of report
that the eight-man Committee set up by Chief Wike to compile the names of
non-indigenes in the State Civil Service and business outfits belonging to
non-indigenes has secretly submitted its report. According to the report, the
crackdown will be in phases and will start with the sack of non-indigenous
civil servants starting from third week of July, 2015.
Based on this sad development, EINFRS has petitioned President Buhari,
pleading that he should come to their aid before Chief Wike endangers their
lives just because they, in keeping with their pact with Amaechi, actively
supported his (Buhari's) candidature to that of the former President, Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan.
Part of the petition signed by the Forum's Secretary General, Dr
Ndubuisi Nwakadibia reads: “Mr. President, you have through your sagacity and
revolutionary leadership since your inauguration as the President and Commander-in-Chief
of the Armed Forces brought peace, tranquility and integration to all Nigerians
irrespective of their ethnic and tribal backgrounds. It is sad that unlike
other States enjoying peace and democracy Chief Nyesom Wike, the Governor of
River State, has made it a policy to torment our people for supporting your
candidature instead of that of Dr Jonathan Goodluck, the former President,
during the March 28th Presidential election since his inauguration as the
Governor of Rivers State. He has embarked upon on an ignoble decimation of APC
structures, retrenchment, sack, intimidation, harassment and victimisation of
non-indigenes, particularly APC members and supporters resident in Rivers
State. Your Excellency, Sir, we are by this petition appealing to you to use
your good offices and effervescent nature to call Chief Wike to order, and SAVE
US from this unwarranted, unprecedented and provocative onslaught against us
for failing to identify with his evil agenda against us and the people of
Rivers State. As we told you during our Town Hall Meeting with you at Obi
Wali's International Conference Centre, Port Harcourt in March, 2015, we have
no other State to go to apart from Rivers State as most of us were born in
Rivers State and for Chief Wike to continue to intimidate us in a State we have
contributed much to build is not our ideal of democracy.”
EINFRS appealed to President Buhari to remember and adequately
appreciate Amaechi's contributions to his victory. “We wish to appeal to
remember all the risks that Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi took to ensure the
success we recorded in the Presidential polls and ensure that he is comfortably
accommodated in your administration as anything less than this will amount to
adding to the pain that we are currently going through in Rivers State,” the
group stated.
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