Group Condemns Abe’s Stance On Security

The National Assembly member representing Rivers South East in the Upper Chambers, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe and other opposition members of the All Progressives Congress (APC)  have been accused of misinforming the public on the security situation in Rivers State to score  undeserved political points.
The Coalition of Rivers Patriots made the assertion while reacting to Senator Abe’s comment  on the security situation in Port Harcourt at a forum in Abuja where he said that “Port Harcourt is so unsafe that people are relocating to Abuja”.
In a statement signed by  the Publicity Secretary of the group, Barr Thompson Barilede, the group maintained that nothing can be farther from the truth.
It described the alarm as a fabrication by  fleeing politicians who are being hunted by the ghosts of the violence that they visited on Rivers people during the immediate past administration.
The statement further accused Senator Abe and other members of APC for being responsible for their imagined insecurity in the state, given their desperation  to win  the last election by all means
The group further insisted that Rivers population is intact, and  that nobody is fleeing as falsely being claimed by Abe, stressing that it is only those who have been instigating insecurity in the state  that have relocated to Abuja.
The statement  reads in part: “Rivers people are in Rivers State. Those who claim to have relocated to Abuja are only being economical with the truth as they have since been on self-exile because of the atrocities they committed in their quest to win elections at all costs.
“People are not going to Abuja because Port Harcourt is unsafe, the handful who are involved  are doing so because they want to run away from the shadows of their atrocities against Rivers people in the quest to achieve their political ambitions.