APC replies alleged ‘PDP’s lamentations of frustration over Amaechi’

The attention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Rivers State Chapter has been drawn to a press release by the Rivers State PDP Chairman signed by his Media Assistant, Jerry Needam titled ‘Stop Shielding, Emboldening Amaechi, Match Words with Action – PDP Tells Buhari.’

The APC through its Rivers State Publicity Secretary, Chris Finebone explained in a press statement, “an overview of the eight-paragraph write-up undeniably offers a pen picture of an unstable state of mind of the writer, his boss and political party.  Indeed, it tells of a group of persons who are operating within the horribly pathetic world of full-blown lunacy”.

The statement continued, in paragraph 2, the press release talks of “obvious cases of looting of public facilities, siphoning of Rivers State funds, fraudulent sales of State-owned establishments and monumental financial frauds committed by Rotimi Amaechi and his administration in Rivers State, and for which a Judicial Commission of Inquiry has been duly set up by the present administration to investigate, the President has continued to shield the former Governor, the latest of which is his inclusion in the Presidential team to the United States to meet with President Obama.”

 According to the APC, “If the concept and understanding of government by the PDP in Rivers State is beyond looting of the people’s commonwealth, it would have occurred to them that any assets of government sold will normally be paid into the state coffers and not converted. The PDP should have known that the former governor was not as naive as they would want to portray him; neither was he corrupt by any means. The afore-mentioned assertions by the PDP bring many questions to mind. Could this have come from sane and stable minds? Are people adjudged guilty as soon as judicial commissions of inquiry are set up? Is the so-called Commission unable to reach Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi? In any case, why has Governor Nyesom Wike suddenly developed cold feet and feeling deflated over his vendetta Commission?”

The release goes ahead to state in parts, “The PDP believes that if the President was sincere and dispassionate in his efforts to bring to book corrupt leaders in the country, the former Governor (Amaechi) will not be dining and having complimentary handshakes with him at the Presidential villa.”

The party declared, “there is really nothing to say to dignify such a mendacious statement than repeating what an APC chieftain said a while ago: Those behind this press release deserve empathy more than they deserve to be condemned because they appear to be at the highest state of frustration, the type capable of resulting to serious health mishaps.”

The APC believes that “the manic obsession with Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi by Jerry Needam and his sponsors is a clear testimony of a deliberate plot to ensure that the good self of the former governor is tarnished at all cost. It underscores the real reasons for the so-called judicial commission of inquiry set up by the Rivers State Governor, Barr. Nyesom Wike”.

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