Magnus Abe, senator representing
Rivers south-east senatorial district, has asked supporters of Rotimi Amaechi,
minister of transportation, to stop blaming President Muhammadu Buhari for
their woes.
Abe was reacting to comments made
by Chidi Loyd, an ally of Amaechi, who had accused the president of abandoning
members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state “when they needed
him the most.”
The senator said Nigerians have
heard and ignored stories of the abuses rained on the president on a daily
basis by those who are supposed to be his supporters and promoters in Rivers.
“I was visibly shocked when Hon.
Chidi Lloyd, the Director-General of the Amaechi/Cole campaign went on Channels
TV to openly abuse the president and blamed President Buhari for the electoral challenges
facing the APC in Rivers state,” Abe said in a statement.
“This is most unfortunate. The
habit of blaming everyone else for our woes must stop immediately. We had a
needless and senseless power tussle in the party even when everyone agreed that
the minister was the leader, yet that was Senator Abe’s fault, (because Senator
Abe has a gubernatorial ambition as if there is any member of a political party
in Nigeria without an ambition).
“APC members in Rivers State went
to court for a minor issue that could have been resolved internally in ten
minutes, they were accused of being sponsored by Governor Wike.
“The APC leadership went to
physically attack the courts and openly disobeyed court orders and the courts
responded by axing the candidates for being products of that disobedience. The
judges were accused of being PDP and working for Wike.
“Now you have gone into an
election for which you are clearly ill-prepared, and yet the president gave you
everything. Rivers APC had NDDC, Railway, NPA, Shippers Council; Ministry of
Transportation, Police, Army, Air Force, DSS and yet you could not win because
the INEC REC is PDP. INEC Chairman is PDP, haba!”
The senator sarcastically asked
if the president was also working with Wike since he is being blamed for the
party’s problems.
He noted that if members of the
APC had taken their time to remind the people of Buhari’s love for them, the
party would have made more sense to the electorate.
“In playing our usual blame game
let us leave President Buhari out of it and focus on the real issues facing the
party in Rivers state,” he said.
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