The Rivers State Com
missioner For Agriculture, Mr. Emma Chindah, has challenged the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Nyesome Wike, to focus his campaign on policies and programmes rather than castigating the programmes of the state government.
Mr. Chindah who said this during a courtesy call by the executive of the National Union of Ikwerre Students (NUES) said that the era of personalising the policies of Rivers State was gone.
He said that what the people of Rivers State want to hear about are programmes and policies that the former Minister of State for Education has for the state if elected and not criticising Amaechi’s Agricultural plantation, especially at a time when the country is diversifying its economy to the agricultural sector.
The commissioner also said that it would be sheer greed on the part of the Ikwerres to seek to govern Rivers State after Governor Amaechi, stressing that as a people; the Ikwerres must exhibit the spirit of accommodation by allowing other ethnic groups to govern the state.
He stressed the need for the students to champion the course of being their brothers’ keeper.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Emmanuel Chindah, has described the choice of Dakuku Peterside as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as good for the state.
He said that Dakuku was responsible for the numerous projects across the state during his time as commissioner for works.
Chindah listed some of the achievements of the APC governorship candidate  to include the Eleme Junction interchange, the Andoni/Opobo Unity road; the Agbandele road project, the multi-billion naira Owerri/Port Harcourt road project, dualisation of the Ikwerre and Elekahia road projects amongst others.
Earlier, the President-General of the National Union of Ikwerre Students (NUES), Mr. Anele Christian, thanked the commissioner for the role he played during the union’s election and listed some challenges facing the union which include lack of vehicle amongst others.