Amaechi, Threat To Democracy -Obuah

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike (right), receiving a document from the President, Ogbakor Ikwerre, United States and Canada branch, Mr Fortune Woluwo, during the courtesy visit of the delegation to the Governor in Port Harcourt, recently.

The Chairman, Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Felix Obuah, has said that there is no truth in the statement of the  Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Ameachi describing the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, as a threat to democracy in the country.
Obuah insisted that the former governor was “only struggling to divert attention from his abominable atrocities, rebellious activities and breach of public peace and security in the state and the nation at large”, stressing that “it is  instead Amaechi that has become a threat to democracy and peace in the country.”
In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jerry Needam, the PDP chairman, expressed disappointment that rather than help President Muhammadu Buhari to proffer solution to the numerous problems on his plate, particularly the deteriorating economic situation and apparent lack of focus of the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government, Amaechi was busy blackmailing a focused and development-sensitive governor, and causing trouble in Rivers State.
According to Obuah, Amaechi’s statement was “undoubtedly a cover-up, distraction and attempt to subvert the truth about who he is and what his activities in the state portend”.
He recalled how the minister of transportation flooded the state during the re-run elections with soldiers to rig the process, kill innocent voters and intimidate the citizens while exercising their franchise.
The statement emphasised that rather than admit his failure as a governor for eight years and ill-preparedness for his new office as Minister for Transportation, Amaechi has resorted to pulling down the good foundation of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike-led administration, “a mission and task he cannot accomplish”.
Obuah, therefore, called on the former governor to settle down to business as a minister and allow the peace in Rivers State to be, reiterating his earlier appeal to the President to call Amaechi to order, before he completely destroys the already low image of his government.
The PDP chairman also urged the people of the state to ignore Amaechi’s alleged deceitful claims, adding that nothing good and meaningful can ever come from Amaechi, who failed as a governor, and APC leader in the state, as he could not deliver his party at the polls, failing even in his polling unit.

Susan Serekara-Nwikhana