The state chapter of APC made this declaration on Tuesday, appealing to voters in the South West Senatorial District of the State to repay PDP and Governor Nyesom Wike for their atrocities against the zone by massively rejecting PDP candidates and casting their votes for APC candidates on Saturday.
“Chief Wike and PDP collaborated with the administration of former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, to cede the Rivers State oil wells in the Kalabari Kingdom to Bayelsa State. As if that was not enough, Wike, after imposing himself as governor, has within a short time turned the South West into a killing field. We appeal to the good people of Rivers South West Senatorial Zone to demonstrate their rejection of Wike and PDP by overwhelmingly voting for APC candidates during Saturday’s rerun elections,” Rivers APC said in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by the state chairman, Dr. Davies Ikanya.
The statement regretted that in less than 10 months of their occupation of the Government House, “Governor Wike and PDP have turned Rivers South West Senatorial District into a place of mourning where innocent citizens are slaughtered and burnt like goats on daily basis.”
Rivers APC noted that “Wike’s hatred for Rivers South West Senatorial District has never been hidden, as it was the same Wike who frustrated all the plans to construct the Trans-Kalabari Road.”
“If there is a time to reward both Wike and PDP for their evil acts against this zone, the March 19th rerun election is the appropriate time. We therefore plead with the voters in Rivers South West to vote in APC’s Hon.Otelemaba Dan Amachree as their Senator,” the statement said.
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The party further stated that “with Hon. Otelemaba Daniel Amachree a one time Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly and the longest serving member in any State House of Assembly in Nigeria, having served his constituency a record four times, from 1999 till 2015 coupled with his legendary contribution to the nationally acclaimed stability of the Rivers State House of Assembly since 1999 this one time Chairman of South-South Speakers Conference in recognition of his leadership acumen, Rivers State can be assured that their feelings and interests will be highly protected and guided jealously by this great lawmaker in the Upper Chamber.”
