PDP berates Amaechi for closing down markets, shops

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(Nigeria) The Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has berated Governor Rotimi Amaechi for ordering that all markets and shops in Port Harcourt be shut down on Saturday, October 25, 2014 scheduled to mark his seven years of Supreme Court victory and swearing in as Rivers State Governor in 2007.
Rejecting the executive order through a statement by Jerry Needam, Special Adviser on Media to the State Chairman, Mr Felix Obuah, the PDP said it’s insensitive and smacks of unconcern for the welfare of the people by coercing them to remain indoors simply because an uncaring governor wants to celebrate a controversial Court victory that took place seven years ago which has caused the people more pains and backwardness.
More worrisome, the PDP notes, is the huge amount to be wasted on the hired crowd who were paid N20,000 each to pose as Amaechi’s and the All Progressive Congress, APC’s teeming supporters in the State.
The PDP is shocked that a governor who wants the people to continue to support him in his future political career could not be moved by the pathetic situation of starving public servants in the State who are being owed months of salary arrears and allowances yet Gov Amaechi is excited to organize such a jamboree with the State resources.
The PDP believes the hundreds of millions of naira budgeted for the meaningless rally could have been more judiciously used to pay the civil servants their salaries and fix the numerous internal roads begging for attention across the State.
It’s also surprising to the PDP that Amaechi who had wasted huge resources of the State in legal battles in defense of his faulted participation in the April 26, 2011 governorship election, claiming that his first tenure actually terminated on May 28, 2011, is still laying claim to October 25, when the controversial Supreme Court ruling was given as the date he took over the reins of office and power in the State.
This is nothing but self deceit, a feature of a warped mind, the PDP declared.
The PDP however enjoined the Rivers people and residents not to be swayed and downcast by the arbitrary, illegal and coercive order, but to remain steadfast in their firm belief that this is only but temporary, pray and believing God for a quick change with a more progressive and humane administration which the PDP is poised to offer.

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