Call Your Aides To Order, PDP Advises Jonathan; Demands Aviation Minister’s Sack …As Amaechi Blames PH Airport Neglect On Political Crisis

The Abubakar Baraje-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to call his aides to order so as to avoid plunging the country into avoidable chaos.
The PDP also asked the President to stop his men from portraying his administration as promoting corruption to the high heavens.
In a statement yesterday signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the new PDP said that the advice had become necessary following the uncovering of a plot to massively bribe House of Representatives members with a view to getting them pass a vote of confidence on President Jonathan while at the same time putting in place strategies to impeach the Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal and some other principal officers for their alleged sympathy for the Baraje-led PDP National Executive Committee of the party.
The breakaway party explained that information available to it indicated that the Bamanga Tukur’s faction of PDP, working in concert with some Presidency officials, has set about to induce members of the House of Representatives with a view to passing a vote of confidence on President Jonathan and impeaching its (new PDP) principal officers.
Meanwhile, the new PDP has berated the Presidency for the sack of Senator Joy Emordi as Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters following her candid advice on the right way to handle simple political issues instead of bribing lawmakers to do the President’s bidding.
“We have equally read reports that Senator Joy Emordi was sacked as Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters because of her candid advice that inducing members of the National Assembly financially to impeach their principal officers would be counter-productive.
“If this is true, we hereby demand her immediate reinstatement. For Senator Emordi to be bold enough to tell Mr. President the implication of such a corrupt inducement of lawmakers should earn her commendation rather than a sack.
“Instead of sacking such a forthright and patriotic Amazon, the President should sack those hawks around him planning to ridicule him by encouraging him to embark on acts capable of making him unpopular amongst his supporters and followers,” the statement added.
Meanwhile, the leadership of the new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the immediate sack of the Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Oduah following allegations that she was instrumental to the unnecessary delay in the completion of the remodeling of Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa.
In a statement signed yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the new PDP said that “if it is true that the Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Odua, has abandoned the remodeling of the Port Harcourt International Airport while completing those started at the same time because of the assumed conflict between President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, we demand her immediate sack before she causes further damage to your administration.
“We plead with you, Mr. President, not to embark upon any further act or impunity that will endanger the peace and unity of our troubled nation,” the statement added.
It would be recalled that Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, last Saturday accused the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, of abandoning the remodelling of the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state because of his rift with President Goodluck Jonathan.
Amaechi, who said this in an interview with Channels Television, monitored by our correspondent, said that apart from leaving the airport in deplorable state, the minister impounded the aircraft belonging to the state “for no reason.”
The governor said he had reported the minister to the President to no avail.
He said, “I have gone to the President and told him that because of the disagreement between Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who is not Rivers State, and the President, the Minister of Aviation has abandoned the airport.
According to the governor, “they started that airport with Kano, Lagos, Abuja, Benin, and Calabar. The rest have been completed, including Enugu, which has been commissioned. It is hatred. The Minister of Aviation is reckless on that.”
Amaechi raised the alarm that with the state of the international airport, terrorists could have easy access and attack it at will.
He added that due to his rift with Jonathan, Oduah had prevented the state government from fulfilling its responsibility of securing the state and fighting crimes, including oil theft, using surveillance helicopters that it had paid for.
“We paid for two surveillance helicopters that would fly around Rivers State (and detect crime), including oil theft, and report real crime to police, air force, army and the Government House. She (Oduah) refused the helicopters from coming. They are there in America and the government of America has been wondering why we don’t want to take our plane and the President (Jonathan) is aware,” he said.
But in response, the Special Assistant (Media) to the Aviation Minister, Joe Obi, described the allegations as untrue and false, insisting that huge work was going on at the Port Harcourt International Airport.
“Port Harcourt Airport is among the 11 airports in the first phase of airport remodelling. If you go to that airport now, it is completely different from what it was two or three years ago,” Obi said.

L-R: General Manager, Human Resources and Administration, RSSDA, Mr. Tonye Sukubo, President, Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM), Mr. Victor Famuyibo and Executive Director/ CEO, RSSDA, Mr. Noble Pepple, after the Agency received the 2013 CIPM HR Best Practice Award in Abuja, last Thursday.