FOLLOWING AMAECHI’S TENEMENT RATE BAIL OUT FOR ACN RIVERS STATE CAMPAIGN OFFICE, PPA ASSERTS THAT ACN LACKS THE CLOUT TO WIN ANY OF THE ELECTIVE POSITIONS UP FOR GRABS IN THE STATE!
In the spirit of fair play and a resolve to ensure a level playing field
at the upcoming April Polls, Rt Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Rivers
State governor in his speech at the Obio Akpor leg of his campaign held on
Friday 4th of march 2011 at the College of Arts and Science Port Harcourt,
put to rest any speculation regarding his involvement in the sealing off
by court order of the premises of the ACN campaign office in the State. He
stated that the council decision to seal off the office was at the
instance of a court order for failure of the owners of the property to pay
four years outstanding tenement rate. Much to the surprise of everyone
gathered at the event, Amaechi gave a directive to the Accountant General
of the State to ensure that his February Salary be used to settle all
outstanding fees on that property. He also directed the Obio Akpor Council
to reopen the offices to enable the ACN embark on their campaign.
Much as we applaud this unprecedented albeit grand gesture by the
Governor, we would want to decry the underhand tactics by the ACN to
ferment propaganda in its claims that the Rivers State Government has set
up a systematic program to ensure that LG Chairmen in the State and other
agencies deny them the use of facilities that will facilitate its
gubernatorial campaign. The PPA Leadership wishes to state that all these
claims and counter claims by the ACN, is simply a smokescreen to divert
from the simple fact of the party's poor financial state, making it near
impossible to come close to winning even a councillor seat come April
2011.
Apart from the sorry state of the finances of the party, it is an
incontrovertible fact, that following the exit of the ersthwhile Rivers
State Leader of the AC Prince Tonye Princewill from the party, a movement
that witnessed a mass exodus of party members loyal to the Prince, the AC
became a shadow of itself. It is therefore near impossible for the Rivers
ACN to in such a short time reinvent itself into a formidable body that
can rise up to challenge the PDP structure led by the indefatigable
Governor.
Much as we try to understand the Governors need to create a level playing
ground hence his bail out of the AC campaign office, we would rather he
invested his salary in more worthy pursuits that will be of use to the
people of Rivers State rather than in a misadventure.
Finally, we wish to counsel the Leadership of ACN in Rivers State though
overwhelmed with the demands of organising and embarking upon a serious
campaign and the futility of unseating a performing Governor like Rt. Hon.
Chibuike Amaechi to concentrate on issues and how to convince the people
of Rivers State that their strategy and policy of visiting them with a new
security agenda of them sleeping with their eyes wide opened to that of
this Administration security that makes them sleep with their eyes closed
and avoid further overheating the polity with their politics of hate and
directionless.
Today whether we like it or not, acclaimed world leaders, respected
Organisations and International bodies have recognised and acknowledged
Amaechi as a renowned and respected Leader of our time. It becomes
shocking therefore that people we know their antecedents and pedigree
instead of facing the reality of campaigning and explaining to the
electorates their past unholy acts and see the possibility of being
forgiven now resort to character assassination and dishing out falsehood
against people who have taken time to map out plans and policies to take
our State to the next level.
In another development, the PPA in addition to working tirelessly for the
reelection of Gov. Amaechi, has directed all its zonal and Local
Government Structures to join forces with Hon. Magnus Abe, Hon. Chief
Dakuku Peterside, Hon. Dr. Dawari George and all PDP candidates in their
campaigns to ensure their success at the polls. This new set of leaders
are those being repositioned to give us the required representation at the
National level that will let the world know the greatness of the new
Rivers State we are building.
For avoidance of doubt, Princewill Political Associates (PPA) is a
political pressure group comprising new generation politicians covering
the length and breadth of Niger Delta region propagating and preaching the
gospel of a new type of politics devoid of acrimony, tribalism,
sectionalism and all the evils associated with unprincipled and
undemocratic values in our polity.
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
Media Consultant, PPA