Rivers Youth Leader Carpets APC Over Hardship, Insecurity In Nigeria

Rivers State youths under the aegis of Rivers Youth Leadership Assembly (RYLA) have blamed the All Progressive Congress (APC) led government at the centre for the level of poverty in the country.
Speaker of the ‘Assembly’, Hon Tonye Jeminimiema, said this in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt while assessing Nigeria’s achievement in the last 64 years.
He said since the APC came to power in 2015, Nigeria had witnessed increased poverty and insecurity.
“As I speak to you, move round the streets of Port Harcourt and the whole Rivers State, you will see hunger on the faces of people” , he said.
He said Nigeria was making progress until the APC government took over power in 2015, adding that since then the country had continued to experience insecurity and hunger.
The youth leader said those who conspired against former President Goodluck Jonathan should seek for forgiveness from the ex-president.
He said under the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) governments of Olusegun Obasanjo, Musa Yar Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria made progress until the APC government took over in 2015.
According to him, since 2015 the country has experienced various levels of insecurity, including banditry, armed robbery and hunger.
Hon. Jeminimiema also described Governor Siminialayi Fubara as God sent, adding that the Rivers State Chief Executive has the same programme as former President Jonathan.
He said despite distractions, Governor Fubara had continued to provide purposeful leadership to Rivers people, especially, in the areas of quality healthcare services, regular payment of salaries, promotion to civil servants as well as the promotion of peace in the state.
The Rivers State youth assembly speaker, who is also the State Director of Sim Fubara Stakeholders Forum Worldwide, commended the Governor for being able to implement all his programmes despite distractions by various political enemies.
He said his group was already galvanizing support for the administration of Governor Fubara and described him as the grand patron of the youth body.
On the forthcoming local government elections, he called on candidates not to use any youths in the state as political thugs, stressing that those contesting should sell their programmes to the people.
While cautioning the youth against violence, he urged the security agencies to go after any one who foments trouble during the election.
The youth leader urged Federal Government to stop borrowing money, insisting that the country had borrowed enough.
He wondered what the already borrowed funds had been used for, while challenging the central authority to think out ways of eradicating hunger and poverty in the country.
Hon. Jeminimiema also wondered why the Bonny/Bodo road has lingered till date and lamented incessant incidents of piracy along the Bonny water ways.
He urged the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Chief Nyesom Wike, to use his position in Abuja to bring development to the state as the position he is occupying is for Rivers people.

John Bibor