The Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday accused Governor Nyesom Wike of wasting taxpayers’ money on what it called “Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) convention jamborees.”
But PDP fired back, describing APC as a “meddlesome interloper.”
In a statement issued in Port Harcourt, the state capital, by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Chris Finebone, APC alleged that Wike planned to spend government money on the convention.
It said the APC was worried that the government which allegedly failed to pay civil servants’ salaries, planned to use public funds to host the convention.
“Our worry heightens when we consider that PDP bills are humongous and Governor Wike has elected himself to offset the bills with the funds of Rivers people running into billions of naira.
“Sadly, Southsouth states and others have always acted the wise boys because their governors know that their peoples’ money should not be wasted on jamborees,” the statement alleged.
It added: “Civil servants, legislative aides, medical workers, teachers and other workers in different sectors in the state are groaning and protesting several months of unpaid salaries and wages.’’
The statement advised Wike to concentrate on governance rather than using state resources to host the convention.
“National conventions are very expensive business, the cost runs into billions of naira. Governor Wike has the responsibility to provide effective governance for the people. This he should do with the resources that belong to them and not to fritter billions of naira belonging to Rivers people on the affairs of his party, the PDP,” the statement added.
It went on: “The APC is worried that, as a lawyer, Wike and other lawyers in the PDP are the ones shopping for all manner of conflicting court orders, regarding their national convention. The sum total of their actions point to unfettered reign of impunity on August 17 and this is familiar territory for Wike and his co-travellers. Whenever the dust of the convention settles, the likelihood of the convention being declared a nullity looms.
”However, the utmost concern to the APC is that the Rivers taxpayers are now made to bear the brunt of reviving the dying behemoth called PDP, now lying comatose in hospital and gasping for breath (apologies to former President Olusegun Obasanjo).”
APC said the insecurity in the state had been confirmed by that week’s kidnap of 14 passengers kidnapped last week, after their commercial bus was hijacked at Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA) by gunmen and taken to an unknown destination in the forest, and the bus set ablaze. The abducted has since been freed.
In a statement by its chairman’s spokesman Jerry Needam, PDP debunked the allegation.
The statement reads: “Their only concern is that the National Convention holding in Port Harcourt has punctured their baseless propaganda of insecurity in the State just to discredit the unequalled efforts of the God-sent Executive Governor of the State, Chief Barr Nyesom Wike who has roundly demonstrated an unstoppable interest in restoring sanity to the State by putting to an end the regime of organized crime aimed at mortgaging the State by a few inconsequential political neophytes insisting on the ‘old order’.
“There is no gainsaying the fact that the PDP National Convention holding in the Garden City of Port Harcourt besides debunking the many lies of the APC about the State, will further bring the tourism potentials that abound across the State to the front burner of social discourse with the side attraction of opening up the State to potential investors desirous of taking advantage of the rich oil and gas resources to invest in the State.
“This is simple economic arithmetic that only the APC lacks the knowledge to understand, no wonder the prices of petroleum products, agricultural produce, consumer products, building materials and everything with no exception have sky-rocked to the high heavens so much so that even the APC supporters across the country are causing the day the reins of power and leadership of this once great nation unfortunately slipped into the hands of ‘one chance’, sorry, chain agent called APC government. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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