Amaechi accuses PDP of breaking Rivers peace accord

FOLLOWING the wave of politically motivated violence in Rivers State, Governor Rotimi Amaechi, has accused the People Democratic Party of breaking the peace accord facilitated by the Nigeria Police Force ahead of the 2015 general election.

Amaechi, who was reacting on Saturday to the attack on an APC ward-to-ward rally in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, where several persons sustained machete cut injuries, said the PDP had made nonsense of the peace agreement.

It will be recalled that the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 6, Calabar, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin, had in February 2015, organised a peace meeting with major political parties in the state, including the PDP and APC.

But Amaechi, who spoke to about 15 members of his party, who were injured by suspected thugs working for the PDP, explained that the attacks on APC members was becoming unbearable.

Amaechi, who spoke through the Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Chief Tony Okocha, described the peace accord as a ruse, adding that the police was not investigating the attack against APC members in the state.

He said, “The question anybody would be asking now is that what happened to the peace accord. The peace accord is a ruse because not even the police is investigating what is happening. The peace accord was signed with the police as witness. In fact the peace accord was even facilitated by the police.

“The PDP in the state is making a nonsense of the entire peace accord because our people are not allowed to hold meetings without interference. At some point, we just avoid them; at some point, any area we designate for our meetings, before you know it, they (PDP) will go and erect canopies there.

Amaechi accuses PDP of breaking Rivers peace accord