PDP, ALGON Knock Rivers APC Over Attacks On Gov

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that Governor Nyesom WIke has a hand in the current crisis rocking the party in the state.
The Tide recalled that APC’s National and State Assemblies aspirants in the state led by Hon. Henry Odili at a media briefing last week threatened that there will be no election in the state save INEC relists its candidates for the poll.
The aspirants also accused INEC of conniving with Governor, Wike to exclude the APC in the general elections in the state.
But speaking with The Tide in Port Harcourt at the weekend, Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Darlington Orji advised the APC to look inwards and stop pointing accusing fingers.
Orji attributed the crisis within the party, APC in the state to highhandedness by some big wigs of the party, pointing out that the state governor is neither a member of their party nor interested in what happens in their fold.
“Governor Wike is never interested in their party affairs and neither has he been a member of the APC as to cause their internal wrangling.
“The internal wrangling the APC is aware was orchestrated by the Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation who decided to laud a governorship candidate over and above the real members of APC. So we cannot be linked to it,” Orji, spokesman of the PDP in the state stated.
Similarly, the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Rivers State chapter also disagreed with the APC aspirants that Governor Wike is responsible for the delisting of the party in the general elections.
The State Chairman of ALGON and Mayor of Port Harcourt City Local Government Area, Victor Ihunwo said that the governor is a crusader of the rule of law and will not meddle into the affairs of the APC.
Ihunwo said, “Well ordinarily ALGON in Rivers State would have ignored their baseless rantings but to put the records straight.
“We wish to state that Governor Wike is a well-bred democrat who at all times believe in free and fair electoral contest which is the hallmark of democracy and thus will not do anything that will undermine the democratic process or engage in any undemocratic practice.
“Governor Wike is a lawyer who believed in the due process of the law and will not undermine the judicial process like their master who closed the courts in Rivers State for over a year to achieve selfish political interest.
“The judiciary in Rivers State is independent and does not witness interference as they seem to suggest,” the state ALGON chairman stated.

Dennis Naku