200 Eleme Ex-APC Members Pledge Support For Wike

Celebration that followed the Supreme Court victory of Sen Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), at the residence of Chief Emeh Glory Emeh in Port Harcourt, was further boosted by the visit of over 200 former members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), from Eleme Local Government Area, to announce their exit from the party and support for Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.
Speaking on behalf of other decampees, former Public Relations Officer of APC in Ward 8 in Eleme, Comrade Felix Ntobari Ogbuji said they were angry with the leadership of APC in Eleme for failing to fulfill its promises.
Ogbuji, who was also coordinator and youth leader of Unit 15 in Eleme, added, “I have been in APC, worked with them and found them to be liars. They find it difficult to keep to their promises.
According to him, “the APC go into projects they are not able to complete. I am tired and fed up with what is happening in APC. Eleme youth are crying.  We are angry. APC has used most of the youth and dumped them.
“That is why we decided to embrace what Governor Nyesom Wike is doing because he has brought good things to the people of Rivers State. We have decided to support the governor and beg him to do more for Eleme people so that come 2019, no  spirit or human will be able to stop him from being the governor”, the former APC leader in Eleme declared.
Ogbuji, who acknowledged that the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike has empowered a lot of people in Eleme, said they were optimistic that their return to the PDP will encourage the governor to do more for Eleme, just as he added that they were pleased to be associated with the inclusive administration of Wike in Rivers State.
In his response, Chief Emeh Glory Emeh, recalled how APC used to hold its leadership meetings in his house in Port Harcourt, but added that he had to quit the party when it became obvious that the APC was lacking direction.
His words: “As a politician who studied under former Governor Peter Odili, I discovered that things were not going in the right direction, so, I had to leave. Governor Wike has just won the Supreme Court case in Abuja. So, you are coming at the right time when the PDP and the state are celebrating.
“Ahmed Makarfi, leader of our side of the divide in PDP has won in the case against Ali Modu Sherrif. Your coming to my place today is preparatory for Governor Wike to receive you.
“Since over 8,000 persons moved enmasse from APC to the PDP some weeks ago, another 1,728 have also decamped, just as you have done but we are yet to receive them because of the Golden Jubilee celebrations. And now that the celebration is over, Governor Wike will be prepared to receive you all.
“Politics is about interests. It is not about my brother or my sister”.
“The days of primordial sentiments are over. I don’t want to go into the problem of APC before now because you have already made up your minds to cross over to PDP. That’s why you are here,” Emeh explained.
He hinted that his role was to serve as the first anchor for people crossing over from APC to PDP, the same way he did, preparatory to their formal reception by the leadership of the PDP in the state.
The legal practitioner further maintained that Wike has shown that ability to perform should be the precondition for electing someone into office, even as he observed that the primary concern of citizens, irrespective of political, tribal and religious affiliations, are the dividends of democracy aimed at improving the welfare of the citizenry.
Noting that the people will always support whoever was doing the work, Emeh, who was commissioner for transport and aviation during the administration of Dr. Peter Odili, said the visible achievements of Wike in the past two years were eloquent testimonies that God has brought him to advance the course of development in the state.