They’re begging Amaechi to return to PDP - APC leader
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Thursday, February 06, 2014
The Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Emeka Bekee, said yesterday some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are begging Governor Rotimi Amaechi to return to the party.
Bekee spoke yesterday in Port Harcourt, after monitoring the APC’s membership registration in the state.
He said some thugs attempted to disrupt the registration in Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area, where the self-acclaimed Speaker of the House of Assembly, Evans Bipi, hails from and at Degema Local Government Area.
The exercise later took place in Ogu/Bolo, Degema and the 21 other local governments, with the turnout described as impressive.
Bekee said the thanksgiving promised by PDP leaders to celebrate Amaechi’s defection had not been held.
The Supervising Minister for Education, Nyesom Wike, and the PDP State Chairman, Felix Obuah, said an elaborate thanksgiving would be held to mark the exit of the governor, with a committee put in place last year to handle it.
Bekee said: “They boasted last year that they would hold a thanksgiving immediately after the defection of Governor Amaechi from the PDP, which Rivers people are still expecting. The PDP leaders and members in Rivers State are confused and losing sleep over the defection of the NGF chairman to the winning party, the APC.
“If the PDP members in Rivers State are not jittery, why are they attempting to disrupt the APC’s membership registration? They are doing their things. They should also allow us to do our things.
They are now begging Governor Amaechi to return to the PDP and the principled and focused governor said no. They are now worried.”
APC’s State Publicity Secretary Andy Nweye said it uncovered a plot by the leadership and members of the PDP and the Grassroots Development Initiative (GDI) to disrupt the registration exercise.
Nweye said: “Rising from a meeting in the house of a PDP/GDI chieftain and a former Chairman of Obio/Akpor, council leaders of the PDP and the GDI were instructed to ensure that all units of the registration centres are attacked.
“The APC in Rivers State is calling on security agencies to take serious note of this information and do the needful, to avoid the recourse to self-help by members of the APC.”
Nweye also called on the APC’s registration officers and the supervisors to carry on with the exercise, without any fear, while urging the police to provide them with adequate security.
But the PDP, through Pastor Jerry Needam, Obuah ‘s Special Adviser, Media, described as false, the APC’s claim that PDP members were planning to disrupt its registration.
“We have no plan to disrupt APC’s registration. We will not disrupt it and cannot disrupt it. If Rivers people have shunned the registration, they should not blame the PDP.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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