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Amaechi, Peterside Visit Victims Of Gun Attack
Following Tuesday’s at
tack on APC supporters by suspected Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) hoodlums while the victims were on their way to attend the Buhari Presidential Campaign flag-off in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Governor and Director-General of Buhari Presidential Campaign, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to call members of his party, not to unleash violence on APC supporters in Rivers State and across the country.
Amaechi who spoke after leading APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and others on a sympathy visit to the victims of the attack at the Kelsey Harrison Hospital in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, said the President, apart from calling his men to order should also condemn the attack on the APC members by PDP hoodlums.
He said: “Imagine that the President goes to campaign in Katsina or in Kano and his convoy is attacked, imagine that, we will condemn it. In the same manner, we expect the President and the Peoples’ Democratic Party should condemn this violence that has been visited on us by their members and we expect that they should be able to control their members”.
“The President can’t be promising us free, fair and violence-free elections, if he says violence-free election, and here we have already experienced violence, what is he expecting us to do?” he asked.
Amaechi also called on President Jonathan as Commander-In-Chief to provide needed security for all Nigerians irrespective of which party they belong.
According to him, the PDP by these attacks on APC supporters has shown that it is not ready to ensure peaceful or violence-free polls, stating that the fact that people were being attacked was an indication that the PDP is not ready for a free, fair and violence-free elections.”
PDP supporters.
He said the only way for Nigerians to trust President Goodluck Jonathan over his avowed desire for peaceful elections in the country is for the President to publicly condemn these attacks and ensure they don’t re-occur.
Peterside said: “This is an unfortunate trend. I don’t want to believe that violence will characterize the 2015 elections because that is not what any one of us desire. The President has said severally, whether he means it or not is a different matter, that his ambition is not worth the blood of anybody and we agree with him to that extent but again, it is one thing to share your philosophy, it is another thing to see your people go clearly against what you believe in and you are doing nothing about it. I am optimistic that the President and his team and members of his party, the PDP will come out strongly and condemn this act of violence visited on members of the APC in Rivers State”.
He said his party, the APC believes in peaceful polls and using peaceful means to realize political gains.
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Rivers Judiciary Denies Issuing Court Order Stopping SOLAD from Swearing in RSCSC Members
The Rivers State Judiciary has denied a media report claiming that Justice Frank Onyiri of the State High Court issued an injunction order restraining the Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), from inaugurating the newly appointed members of the Rivers State Civil Service Commission (RSCSC).
In a statement issued by the Deputy Chief Registrar in charge of litigation at the High Court, Menenen Poromon (Esq), the state Judiciary disassociated itself from the report, describing it as malicious and fabricated.
The statement emphasized that the report was a falsehood and a misrepresentation of what transpeared in the court.
Poromon clarified that no such order was issued by Justice Onyiri or any other judge of the High Court of the state and urged the public to disregard the information, as it lacked any iota of truth.
The statement however advised the public to verify any information concerning the state Judiciary directly from the office of the Chief Registrar, High Court of the State, to avoid spreading of misinformation.