Lawmaker Wants APC To Apologise To Rivers People

The member representing
Obio/Akpor Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Hon Kingsley Ogundu Chinda has reiterated the need for the All Progressive Congress (APC) Governorship candidate in the April 11 governorship election, Dr. Dakuku Peterside to tender an unreserved apology to Rivers people for misinforming the public during their rally recently.
Hon. Chinda who made this assertion during the peace rally organised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Port Harcourt said it is regrettable that the APC tried to misinform the public by staging what he called “Black Monday’ to mourn people whom they allegedly murdered before and during the elections in the state.
He opined that it is a thing of shame and regretful that those who called themselves leaders could descend so low to deceive and lie to the people they claimed they want to represent, and called on the APC and its members to without delay render unreserved apology to Rivers people.
In his words, “incidentally, I contested that election and I won, and that is the same line of evidence they tried to put forward in court that there was killing and crisis during the election, but unfortunately they were unable to establish that fact in the court.
Today, we know that we are close to the time for judgement again at the Court of Appeal, and what they are doing is just to play to the gallery and sway public sentiment and make it look like it was a battlefield in Rivers State.”
The Lawmaker also disclosed that some of the persons who testified at the APC Black Monday rally were brought to play the script written by the Party, adding that because of the timing of the event, PDP and its supporters in the state felt it’s necessary to correct the wrong impression currently being created by the APC in the state.
“You can imagine one Mr. Bright Oluchi Omunakwe whom I saw on the screen crying that his son was killed is my constituent, the elder brother to my aide is from the same community, nothing of such happened. The young man has no son other than one boy that he had outside wedlock and he is still alive,” he said.

Collins Barasimeye