Commissioner Challenges PDP To Popularity Contest In Ikwerre

Rivers State
Commissioner for Lands and Survey, Hon. Ezemonye Ezekiel-Amadi has challenged leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state to a public debate.
Hon Ezekiel-Amadi who gave the challenge on Tuesday, when the wife of  state governor,  Dame Judith Chibuike Amaechi visited to Isiokpo, the headquarters of Ikwerre Local Government Area, said the debate would enable the chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and their PDP counterparts in the area test their popularity and general acceptability by the people of the area.
The commissioner boasted that in a free and fair contest, the APC would defeat the PDP in the area.
He reassured the governor’s wife of the support of Ikwerre people to both the state government and the leadership of the APC in the state.
The Ikwerre-born politician dismissed the alleged governorship ambition of the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nysesom Wike as no threat to APC, saying neither Wike nor PDP can win election in the state in a free and fair contest.
He commended Dame Amaechi for impacting on the lives of widows, youths and women in the area and urged the Ikwerre people to reciprocate the gesture by supporting the APC government in the state.
In her remarks, Dame Judith Amaechi said, her visit was to complement her husband’s efforts in developing and empowering the people of the area.
She called  on the people of the area to remain steadfast with the governor and APC assuring that the political storm will soon be over in favour APC, both in the state and in the country.
Also speaking, the caretaker committee chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area, Hon Lawrence Chukwu thanked Dame Judith Amaechi and her husband,  for their good gestures towards Ikwerre people, saying Ikwerres would reciprocate the gesture by giving their  support to the APC in the 2015 general elections.

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L-R: Representative of the wife of Kogi State Governor, Mrs Augustine Idachaba, Chairman, Governing Council, Federal Polytechnic, Damaturu, Mr Abba Adawa and National Chairman, Amalgamated Northern Youths for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Aruwa Ismaila, at the inauguration of national and state executives of Amalgamated Northern Youths for PDP in Abuja recently. Photo: NAN