Rivers Crisis:Abe Sues For Forgiveness

The Senator repre
senting Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Magnus Abe, who was allegedly shot with a rubber bullet by the Police at a Save Rivers Movement (SRM) rally in Port Harcourt  over a week ago, has finally broken his silence.
In a statement released recently, Senator Abe expressed gratitude to friends, well-meaning individuals, groups and indeed Nigerians for their prayers,  phone calls, solidarity messages and support, and prayed God to protect them at these dangerous times.
He condemned Sunday’s attack on supporters of Governor Amaechi at Bori, lamenting that rather than implement the UNEP report on Ogoniland, the Federal Government chose to arm youths with guns worth millions of naira to kill fellow human beings.
“Every gun has a life span of over a hundred years, our politics may change.  As today’s friends become opponents tomorrow, the guns will also change hands, but they will still remain lethal, even against their present owners”, he said.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) maintained that, rather than encourage violence to gain relevance in politics, he would continue to arm his supporters, just like his children, with school fees, laptops, prayers and the fear of God.
He emphasised that “we have faced violence before and emerged victorious and sued for forgiveness as well as focus on set goals, stressing that the law as impossible as it may look today, will one day take its course sooner or later.
The statement noted that, if available feelers were anything to act on, the intentions of those behind the political crisis enveloping Rivers State, was to create a sense of insecurity with a view to declaring a state of emergency since other means of removing Governor Amaechi from office had failed.
It advised politicians in the state to play politics by the rules of the game and enjoined them to embrace peace.

L-R: Former Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), Interim Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande and former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba, at the meeting of the party in Abuja, yesterday.