Oil Wells Belong To Rivers – AKULGA APC

The Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akuku Toru Local Government Area, Rivers State, Chief Tubotamuno Dabiri, has said that he was impressed with the people’s support for the party and belief in Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s capacity to fight for the restoration of Soku oil wells back to Rivers State.
Dabiri, who disclosed this during an engagement meeting of the State APC Contact Committee with LGA and select stakeholders in Akuku Toru Local Government Area, also said that Akuku Toru was an APC stronghold, and would vote massively for the party during the 2015 elections.
In his speech, the immediate past executive chairman of Akuku Toru Local Government Area, Hon. Theodore Georgewill, said that someone’s neighbour was one who provides him food, water and shelter when he has none or makes effort to provide him with that.
He said APC was a neighbour and that the man who does not provide for them even though he lives close by was not their neighbour.
He recounted that Abonnema would had been a seaport under Yar’Adua’s administration but the project was stopped and taken to Bayelsa state.
He also said that Soku gas plant would have been an LNG project but was stopped in order for Brass LNG to take off.
Georgewill said that his people are all aware of this and will vote for their real neighbour indeed.
“As the immediate past executive chairman of this local government, people from Immigration and Customs came here looking for an office. They said that the federal government under Yar’Adua wants to open the Abonnema seaport. We were delighted and happy. We suggested area where they could have accommodation because if this had happened it would have opened business opportunities and created employment for our youths.
“Obviously, Akuku Toru would have been like a small Bonny. To my greatest surprise as soon as our neighbour came that programme died and the project was taken to Bayelsa State. Has he not denied us employment and development? I am also aware that there was an intention by Yar’Adua’s government to upgrade the Soku gas plant to that of Bonny LNG. If that had happened, do you know how many companies that would have come here.
“There would have been so many oil companies operating in Akuku Toru today but our neighbour said until Bayelsa LNG grow to that level, Akuku Toru should remain where we are. Is that our neighbour? I tell you APC is our neighbour. The man we call our neighbour has disappointed us and taken away all our benefits. Therefore, we must boot him out”, he said.
Meanwhile, the people of Abonnema town in Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State would now heave a sigh of relief as light in the town has been restored.
The Caretaker Committee Chairman, Mr. Otiasah Christian Livingstone, said that his administration considers the people first before any other interest and that was why barely two weeks of assuming office, the committee has spent a little more than N10 million to restore light in the area.
He said that they of APC are people whose selling point to the people was to serve them well and endear themselves to their hearts.
He promised to address other teething challenges facing the people in the area within the period he is in office.
The chairman said that at the state level, the governor has done well promising that at the local government level, the caretaker committee would leverage on the governor’s good works to do well and deliver the dividends of democracy to the people adding that with such performance, the party would win overwhelmingly at the polls in 2015.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Contact Committee of the party and member representing Opobo/Nkoro/Andoni Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Dakuku Peterside, urged the people to keep on supporting APC as a party that considers the interest of the people and protects their rights by refusing what belongs to them to be taken away by force.
He assured that Rivers State was a significant stakeholder in the Nigerian project and cannot accept to be treated as second class by any person, adding that it was a question of Rivers interest first, any other interest second.
Among those who attended the meeting are; Rt. Hon. Otelemaba Dan Amachree, Speaker, Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Onari Brown, member representing Akuku Toru constituency 1,Hon.Paul Awoyesuku, Commissioner, Local Government Service Commission, Hon. Kuro Briggs, Special Adviser to the Governor on Aquaculture and Deepsea Fishing, Hon. Chief Labomie Manuel, former House of Assembly Member and Mr Desire Bob-Manuel.
Others are; Hon. Chief Ngo John Briggs, former Chairman of the LGA Mr. Fenibo Jack, Hon. Alalibo Briggs, LGA and Ward chairmen and secretaries, party faithful and chiefs

R-L: Hon Robinson Ewor, Hon Chidi Lloyd (chairman), Hon Ibiso Nwuche and Clerk of the committee, Mr Calistus Ojirika, during a public hearing of the Rivers State House of Assembly Committee on Chieftaincy and Council of Chiefs in Port Harcourt, recently