PDP Heavyweights Dump Party for the All Progressives Congress in Rivers ~ Eze

By theGazetteNGR

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Posted: May 31, 2021 at 2:49 PM, Updated: September 21, 2022 at 7:46 AM

Says Progressives are Set to Takeover Brick House

Says Progressives are Set to
Takeover Brick House
Commends Gov. Ben Ayade for Aligning with
the Progressives.

Following the ceaseless gale of
defection rocking the Rivers State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP), erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s
Democratic Party (nPDP) and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Chief
Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has said the determination of Rivers people to severe the
state from the bonds of the PDP scavengers, after two terms of
maladministration which has left citizens to wallow in poverty and deep want,
appears to be gathering momentum more than ever.

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Reacting to the defection of former
allies and members of the Rivers State Executive Council who served under the
current administration of Gov. Wike/PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, Eze
said nothing can stop a project whose time has come, stressing that power
belongs to the people and Rivers people have resolved and are more determined
in unity to retake what is theirs and chat a new cause for the state.

In a statement made available to
media houses in Port Harcourt, the party Chief expressed delight that the
elites and indeed, people of goodwill across party lines are beginning to
appreciate the need to honor the power sharing formula canvassed by the
Minister of Transportation and South/South leader of the All Progressives
Congress, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, which acknowledges and gives
maximum regard to the multi-ethnic nature of Rivers State and accommodates all
interests and opinions in the collective interest of all.

Recall that some former
Commissioners, ex-Special Assistants, State Party Executive Committee Members,
past Council Chairmen, erstwhile LGA party leaders etc were recently received
into the All Progressives Congress last Sunday, in what many have described as
a mega defection rally at the APC State Secretariat in Port Harcourt.

Welcoming the new entrants, Rivers
APC Caretaker Committee Chairman, Barr. Isaac Abbot Ogbobula, assured the
defectors of equal rights and fairness in the scheme of things.

While addressing the large crowd of
decampees, Amaechi reminded Rivers people where we were when he held sway and
called for a contrast between the situation then and the worsening condition to
which the current administration has subjected the people. Indeed, the state
was better off in all indexes of development.

The former Rivers Governor restated
his position to always push for power shift to the riverine area of the state
to allow for fairness and all-inclusive power sharing.

‘If my choice is riverine and
yours is upland, there’s no problem, on the day of elections, we will all vote
and if my riverine candidate looses, I will support the upland that won, and if
upland looses, let the loser support the Riverine.

Some few days ago, an Ikwerre man in
Emouha made a statement that Ikwerres are not tired of ruling, and so there’s
nothing wrong if another Ikwerre man succeeds Wike, for me that’s his opinion
and choice, if you think an Etche man, Ogoni man or Ahoada man should rule,
that’s your choice, but my choice is I will support a Riverine man or woman to
govern the state, I don’t know why people are breaking their head over my
statement, it’s my statement and I stand by it, you have your choice and I have
mine, we shall settle it at the polls’.

Those who pitched their tents with
the APC alongside their massive crowd of supporters Include – former
Commissioner for Urban Development and Rural Planning, Hon. Reason Onyia, Immediate past Commissioner for
Urban development & Rural Planning, Dr. Reason Onyia; past PDP State
Auditor who was also Commissioner for Agriculture under Wike, Hon. Charles
Nwaorgu; Engr. Worlu Joshua JP.

Ex. Rivers State SDP Chairman
alongside members of his Executive Committee; Hon. Emma Ajikeru, Former State
PDP Auditor and erstwhile State Chairman, All Nigerian People’s Party (ANPP).

Others were; Chief Engr. Austin
BobManuel, Barr. Miebaka Nabiebu PhD., Alaye Eremie Jr., Asitoa Charles
Horsfall, Ebelogu Chinasa Sampson, Hon. Newton Gordon Kpasa, APGA Chairmanship candidate in
Ahoada East in the just concluded April 17, 2021 Council elections, Engr.
Tamunotonye Luke Head of Skill Development Department at the Rivers State
Sustainable Development Agency RSSDA.

Commending the defectors for their
bold step and efforts to see the light, Eze said Wike and his PDP
administration will always be remembered for the rains of abuses and array of
unfulfilled promises it continually made to the people, and it will certainly
be an unblessed memory.

On the other hand, Eze hailed the
defection of the Executive Governor of Cross Rivers State, Ben Ayade, to the
All Progressives Congress, describing it as a good omen for the Progressives
party especially, in the South-South region.

He said Ayade has always displayed
the carriage and common traits of a good progressive and expressed confidence
that his entrance will place his people on a better pedestal and add weight to
the cause of a better Nigeria in 2023.

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