Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi
CEOAFRICA.com gathered that Peoples Democratic Party Chapter in Rivers State has warned Governor Chibuike Amaechi not to open up a parallel secretariat in the name of the ‘New PDP’ other than the existing legitimate ruling PDP.
This was disclosed in a release signed by the Special Adviser on Media to the state chairman, Jerry Needam .The statement states that the governor is planning to open up a state secretariat for the new PDP at No. 38 Forces Avenue, Old GRA, Port Harcourt.
The statement described the purported action by the governor as illegal and dangerous to the growth of democracy in Nigeria, and that the state ‘s section of the party would not tolerate that kind of action which would bring about instability in the state.
“We’ll however not let this be, but nonetheless, there is need to sensitize the entire Rivers people to be alert to such plot, regretting that Gov Amaechi should strategically choose to hatch the plot same time and day President Goodluck Jonathan made a stopover in Port Harcourt enroute Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
“This is most embarrassing, insulting and satanically arrogant of a leader on a mission to destroy the system instead of going down alone.
“It’s intolerable and unfathomable by any person or group of person’s conscious of their identity and personality as typified by the God-fearing and self-respecting Rivers people. We are therefore calling on all to resist this arrant madness and animalism of one man desperate and power drunk,” the statement reads.