The state Publicity Secretary of the
PDP, Mr. Samuel Nwanosike, said on Monday that the governor would serve
his tenure, adding that the people of the state would continue to
support his administration.
Nwanosike spoke in Port Harcourt while
briefing newsmen, in reaction to a statement credited to the
governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2015
general election, Dr. Dakuku Peterside.
Peterside had predicted that the regime
of the governor would soon come to an end, adding that the people could
not be deceived with lies and propaganda, no matter how well crafted the
lies were.
But Nwanosike explained that the state
House of Assembly had majority of the PDP and wondered why Peterside,
who is the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency,
would make such a statement.
“Dakuku Peterside should know that the
governor cannot be impeached because in the state House of Assembly, the
PDP is in the majority. The issue of the governor’s regime coming to an
end cannot come up.
“Governor Wike is using the resources at
his disposal to develop the state and that is why he will continue to
enjoy the support of the people.
He explained that there was no
controversy surrounding the position of the state governor, since the
Supreme Court had given its verdict in Wike favour.
“Rivers State is PDP. We have got up to
the Supreme Court and we won. So, to say that Wike’s administration will
soon come to an end does not make any meaning to us,” he added.
Reacting, the state Publicity Secretary
of the APC, Mr. Chris Finebone, disagreed with Nwanosike, saying that
Rivers remains an APC state.
“Rivers State is not PDP. People were
saying Nigeria was PDP, until APC won. It is sheer empty talk to say
that Rivers State is PDP. Rivers belongs to the APC and will remain
APC,”
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