Amaechi, Rivers APC budget N2bn to bribe tribunal------PDP

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(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State has accused the Rivers State Government and the state All Progressives Congress, APC, of setting aside a whooping  N2billion for the purpose of bribing the respected members of the 2015 Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal so that they can give judgment against the PDP.
It also alleged that the Rivers State Government has also approved the sum of N2.5Billion for the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RISIEC, to conduct the ill fated local government elections being planned by the APC government of Governor  Rotimi Amaechi.
MAR Emma Okah, Chairman, Media and Publicity Committee of the PDP Campaign Organisation, Rivers State in Port Harcourt on Friday, alleged that  Amaechi had directed his financial officers to effect this deal at a meeting he held with them a few nights ago in the Rivers State Governor's Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja.
"According to the plan, the entire N4.5BN will be paid to the account of Rivers State as a conduit to cover the money earmarked for the planned inducement of the Tribunal members.
"This is perhaps the reason why Governor Amaechi and the APC in Rivers State have been boasting that the governor-elect will be removed from office in five months of inauguration."
Okah further said that it was wrong for the state governor to set aside this kind of money to bribe Tribunal members and also organise local government elections at the end of his tenure when pensioners in the state have been crying over unpaid arrears.
"Salaries and allowances of civil servants have remained unpaid in the state and incomplete projects litter the state," the statement added.

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