PDP tells Amaechi that it did not even need him in the first place ::|:: You’re free to go, PDP tells Amaechi

By Daniel Abia, P/Harcourt

Rotimi Amaechiama

The recent visit of the leadership of the All progressives Congress (APC), to Rivers State has changed public discourse in the state to the effect that the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) is now jittery.

But on Friday, PDP made bold to say that it is now better off with the defection of Governor Rotimi Amaechi to APC, stressing that all this while, he has constituted “a cog in the wheel of progress of the party”.

APC leaders visited Amaechi on Tuesday in Government House, Port Harcourt, where they pleaded with him to dump PDP and take APC as his new party.

PDP disclosed this while reacting to Amaechi’s boasts that the party was getting jittery over his intention to leave for the APC.

Rather than regret, the party in a statement signed by an aide to the State Chairman of the PDP, Chief Felix Obuah, said Governor Amaechi’s last minute decision to quit PDP, having been suspended and stripped of the state party leadership, is the best thing that can happen to any group desirous of true democracy and freedom for its people.

“For the entire period Amaechi held sway as the leader of the PDP in the state, it has been one controversy to the other as though we are cursed with no appreciable impact on the people despite the huge resources that accrue to the state every month,” the statement further noted.

The party, while wishing Amaechi well in his new party, said that it is high time Amaechi demonstrated his claimed magic wand he has always boasted of during elections and see if he will not be defeated even in his bedroom.

“It’s a pity Amaechi has chosen to play the proverbial ingrate who erroneously thought that his detractors were all dead and, or had become his friends as he now sees the APC leaders and went on to kill his spiritual father only to realize when it was too late that he had shot himself in the leg and was subsequently trapped by his remaining enemies.

“Amaechi should hide his head in shame having broken the unwholesome record of being the first serving Governor to be pursued out of a ruling party to an opposition party.We therefore invite Rivers people to monitor more than ever before he uses our funds to run APC.

“We pray to see what becomes of him and the APC as we go for subsequent elections in the state to determine who own the land,” the PDP declared.

The party therefore urges all Rivers people to join it in celebrating the new air of freedom facilitated by the
defection of Gov Amaechi to the APC, while reassuring them of better days ahead as true leaders of the state have successfully stopped the state from total collapse.

It will be recalled that several critics have been attacking the governor for romancing with the APC members nocturnally until last Tuesday when it became obvious that he may consider a defection.