Rivers Pensioners To Get Arears February

Activities in Government House continued on a
campaign note last week, as both the state and national campaigns of the All Progressives Congress (APC) got to a momentum.
Governor Chibuike Amaechi who is the chairman of the Buhari Campaign Organisation took a break from the national campaigns of the APC to attend to state matters. He met with the business community earlier in the week.
On Thursday, Governor Amaechi returned to the state during which he appeared live on a local radio station to speak to the citizenry. During the interview, the governor hinted of plans by the state government to pay pensioners their arrears before the end of February.
The governor used the radio interview to address pressing state matters, which include the outbreak of cholera in Andoni Local Government Area and Bird Flu reported in some parts of the state.
On the cholera outbreak in Andoni Local Government Area, the governor stated that already the Ministry of Health has put the malaise in check, but disclosed plans to build boreholes in some parts of the local government to reduce further outbreak.
The governor also spoke on the outbreak of Bird Flu, stating that the state government has directed that affected birds in infected farms be slaughtered to avert further spread of the virus.
Later on the same day, Governor Amaechi attended the APC guber rally in Etche Local Government Area. He urged the people of Etche to vote out the PDP-led Federal Government for ceding their oil wells to Abia State.
In the words of the governor, “I will tell you why President Jonathan dislikes the Etche people. You can see that the road from Igwuruta to Abia is a federal road and the road from Emerelu to Omuma also belongs to the Federal Government, but none of these roads have been reconstructed. He used the rally to explain why he refused to grant request of the PDP to use the 40,000 capacity Adokiye Amieyesimaka Stadium for its campaign.
“We will not release the newly built Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium to the PDP for their campaigns. This is because the PDP denied the APC from using the Eagle Square in Abuja for its campaign,” Amaechi said.
Commenting on the controversy surrounding the Senior School Certificate of APC presidential hopeful, Gen Buhari, the governor accused the PDP of diversionary tactics, saying that it is not the issue Nigerians want to hear.
“The Peoples Democratic Party should tell Nigerians why they have refused to eradicate corruption in President Jonathan’s administration. Our economy is so bad that the PDP led government cannot account for the missing $2.3 billion,” he stated
Governor Amaechi was back to the state on Saturday after participating in the Presidential APC rally outside the state. The APC rally in Okrika which he was to attend was put off following the bombing of the rally venue by thugs. While the police has confirmed the incident, the party has assured that the Okrika rally will hold on another date yet to be announced.