Amaechi is Rivers’ problem – PDP

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State remains the main problem of the state.

Deputy National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, stated this at a press briefing in Abuja on Saturday.

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He accused the governor of shutting down the courts and also taking total control of the State House of Assembly, actions he said were being resisted by the people of the state.

Secondus was reacting to the crisis in Okrika, where hoodlums suspected to be members of the PDP disrupted the governorship rally organised by the All Progressives Congress.

He further accused the governor of using the state resources to fund the presidential campaign of the All Progressives Congress.

Secondus said, “The crisis in Rivers State is Amaechi. You journalists should go and investigate. He shut down the courts, he shut down the state assembly and he is now the sole administrator and maximum leader and the people are resisting.

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“Salaries aren’t paid as at when due, the state fund being taken away to sponsor the Presidential Candidate of the APC, General Muhhamadu Buhari. Our jet now is owned by Buhari. Where in this world is it done that people are happy?

“So, all the news of crisis are being generated by Amaechi because he has lost the state and he sustains himself on the pages of newspapers. So, Amaechi is the problem.

“Take for instance the national assembly here if they have disagreement, and the President moves from Villa to the National Assembly and be a partaker in what is going on there.

“But the governor of Rivers State who is the architect of the crisis moved from government house to House of Assembly and took sides. You people should do your investigation and report accurately. Tell him to stop.”

Specifically, he insisted that the the crisis in Okrika was between factions of the APC in the state.

According to him, “The Okrika matter that you talked about, it is APC versus APC, but Amaechi is orchestrating it as if it is PDP and he is even bringing the name of the wife of the President.

“Governor Amaechi has insulted the intelligence of the Rivers people. He is now permanently based in Lagos, in fact, the government of Rivers state has collapsed because Amaechi is no longer governing.”
On the call by the APC that the Court of Appeal judgement be respected concerning the deployment of soldiers for elections, Secondus said soldiers were never used for elections.
He said they were usually deployed for logistics .
He said, “It isn’t new, it has been done before, soldiers aren’t involved in elections, but they are kept in strategic places to safeguard the nation.”