The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has vowed to recover all assets of the state allegedly sold by Governor Chibuike Amaechi without following due process if it wins the governorship election.

Director-General of the Rivers PDP Governorship Campaign Organisation, Chief Desmond Akawo, spoke on Monday at a rally organised by the New Rivers Women Team in Port Harcourt.

He said the PDP governorship candidate, Chief Nyesom Wike, was on a mission to rescue Rivers State and restore its honour as the “Treasure Base of the Nation.”

His word: “Wike is on a mission to rescue Rivers State, supported by his able running mate, a woman of substance and proven integrity, who will work with him to rescue the state.

“Wike and (his running mate, Dr. Ipalibo) Banigo will recover the state from Amaechi. They will recover all the assets of the state sold without due process.
“They will open the courts to allow for the course of justice. The will restore the state House of Assembly. They will be holding regular State Executive Council (SEC) meetings and the state, under the PDP administration, will again assume its pride of place as the Treasure Base of the Nation.”

Also speaking at the rally, the state Chairman of PDP, Felix Obuah, said women would soon have the opportunity of producing a female governor for the state.
Obuah said the PDP and its governorship candidate had, by choosing a female deputy governorship candidate (the first of such in the state), made history and made the emergence of a female governor in the state a possibility.

“If a woman can be a deputy governorship candidate today, tomorrow, I see a vision that a woman will become the governor of Rivers State. I see a vision that women will, tomorrow, take the centre stage in the political affairs of the state,” he said.

Obuah also said the party was not in support of the postponement of elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) but had to accept the decision as a law-abiding political party.

“We want the elections now; even if the election is conducted tomorrow, we are ready for it. But as a law-abiding political party, we have to accept the postponement, in line with the security report which indicated that it would not be wise to conduct the elections now,” he said.

Also speaking at the rally, the Rivers PDP deputy governorship candidate, Banigo, said the party stood for peace, declaring that, “we love peace, we make peace and we demand peace for Rivers State and Nigeria.”

She said she would work towards giving women more opportunities to serve in the governance of the state.

She recalled that when she was appointed the head of service and secretary to the rivers state government in 1988, she facilitated the appointments of female permanent secretaries, female judges and female sole administrators in the various local government areas of the state.

She said if elected in the April 11 elections, she would use her office to enhance better welfare for women in the state, in accordance with the Rivers PDP development agenda.