… Says Hiring of Crowds Is Deceptive
By Ehi Ekhator, Naija Center News
The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the state governor, Rotimi Amaechi for ordering the shut down of all markets and shops in Port Harcourt on Saturday over a personal mega rally.
Governor Amaechi had in a separate statement, given a directives to close all shorts in Port Harcourt to celebrate his seven years of Supreme Court Victory and swearing in as Rivers State Governor in 2007.
In a statement made available to NAIJA CENTER NEWS signed by the Special Adviser on Media to the State Chairman, Bro Felix Obuah, Jerry Needam, the PDP said “it’s insensitive and smacks of unconcern for the welfare of the people by coercing them to remain indoors simply because an uncaring governor wants to celebrate a controversial court victory that took place seven years ago which has causd the people more pains and backwardness.”
The party accused Amaechi of hiring crowd who were said to have been paid N20,000 each to pose as his and his party, All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters in the State.
The Chairman of the state PDP expressed shock that the governor could starve the civil servant and hold on to their salaries and allowances for several month, yet spending recklessly on such a jamboree with the state resources, adding that the hundreds of millions of naira budgeed for what it referred to as “meaningless rally” could have been more judiciously used to pay the civil servants their salaries and attend to the nemerous internal roads begging for attention across the state.
“It’s also surprising to the PDP that Amaechi who had wasted huge resources of the State in legal battles in defense of his faulted participation in the April 26, 2011 governorship election, claiming that his first tenure actually terminated on May 28, 2011, is still laying claim to October 25, when the controversial Supreme Court ruling was given as the date he took over the reins of office and power in the State.”
“This is nothing but self deceit, a feature of a warped mind,” the PDP declared.
The PDP however enjoined the Rivers people and residents not to be swayed and downcast by the arbitrary, illegal and coercive order, but to remain steadfast in their firm belief that this is only but temporary, pray and believing God for a quick change with a more progressive and humane administration which the PDP is poised to offer.
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