HDP Commends Amaechi On Repositioning Of State

Hope Democratic Party (HDP) in River State says Governor Chibuike Amaechi is trying his best to reposition the state but his best is not enough to achieve tangible results that would improve the standard of living of the people of the state.

 The Chairman of HDP in Rivers State, Igoniwari Halliday said part of Amaechi’s problem was that he surrounds himself with what she called social misfits in governance of the state.

 In a press conference in Port Harcourt, the Rivers HDP boss noted that selective democracy and not participatory democracy was the order of the day in the present democratic dispensation.

 Halliday, regretted that most companies in the State had closed shop, blaming the trend on corruption. She said HDP planned to resuscitate the affected companies to create employment opportunities for the teeming jobless if given the electoral mandate come 2011.

 She did not mince words that HDP had put the machinery in place to take over the Brick House in 2011 in order to give hope to ordinary Rivers people and provide food on their tables.

 She also took a reflective look of PDP reign in the state and concluded that the party had nothing substantial to show for it, saying that Rivers people were rather suffering in the midst of plenty.

 The Rivers HDP chairman, however, lamented that the opposition parties were being stiffled in the state and the country in general, adding that the move had frustrated the practice of checks and balances in the system.

 HDP, she said welcomes all progressives who believe in the wind of change and solicited the mass support of the electorate in the party’s move to re-enact hope in the system and salvage the country. She advocated the prosecution of all those behind the signature of the ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on the supplementary budget last year believed to be fake. She said Nigeria should not be taken for a  rideany longer.