PDP Dismisses APC’s Allegations Against Gov Wike As Spurious, Malicious
The chairman of the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bro Felix Obuah says the deliberate refusal of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the State to acknowledge the impressive performance of Governor Nyesom Wike is not only selfish and ungrateful but also shows the APC never meant well for the State in the first instance.
Stating that political opposition is far from outright lies and fabrications aimed at deceiving the people and inciting crisis, the State PDP chairman through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jerry Needam accused the APC of evolving and strengthening politics of bitterness and ‘pull-him’ down syndrome in the State which he said undermine progress and development.
Taking exception to the many lies of the APC which it dished out recently to the press through its State chairman, Davies Ikanya, the State PDP boss, observed that the unnecessary characterization and unfair prejudices against the Governor Wike administration were informed by petty jealousy and want of what to do to castigate a purposeful and visionary leadership that has achieved in less than six months what the APC government could not do in four years, under Amaechi.
Describing ingratitude as the worst of all human frailties, Bro Obuah advised that for both Mr. Ikanya as a person and the APC to make substantial progress in life, they must learn to tow the path of truth as the only virtue that can set one free.
According to Obuah, the State has never had it so good as Gov Wike has been able to prudently and frugally channeled the little resources that have accrued the State since his assumption of office to meaningful projects which find expression in the good road network in Port Harcourt, the State capital and other parts of the State, stressing that while most of these roads have been completed, others are at various stages of completion.
The State PDP chairman also noted that it is common knowledge that it’s Gov Wike’s timely intervention that saved hundreds of students of Rivers origin on RSSDA scholarship overseas who were at the verge of repatriation because of former Governor Amaechi’s failure to pay their fees and upkeep allowances for over 2 years.
“But turning around to allege that it’s Gov Wike that was the cause of the students’ predicament is not only passing the buck to save the shameful act of its failed leader, Amaechi, but also a wicked conception that can only come from an evil and unappreciative mind,” Bro Obuah stressed, also adding that there is no iota of truth in the allegation that the Wike administration is discriminating against non-student indigenes studying in tertiary institutions in the State.
This, the State PDP chairman said, was to score a cheap political point as Gov Wike is too busy to meddle into the administration of high institutions in the State that have their heads and administrators well qualified to handle such matters.
On the allegation of planning to obtain another N10 billion loan by Gov Nyesom Wike, he said His Excellency had never applied for any loan other than the ones legally and legitimately approved by the State House of Assembly which were necessitated by the wrecking of the State treasury by the Amaechi-led government.
Bro Obuah, however, wondered why the APC has just realized that to obtain a loan is to mortgage the State when former Gov Amaechi made borrowing a routine affair despite the huge resources and federal allocations at his disposal yet the APC never uttered a word.
Signed:
Jerry Needam, JP
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity
To the Rivers PDP Chairman, Bro Felix Obuah
Wednesday, November 18, 2015