The last may not have been heard about defection of key politicians in Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s cabinet, if the revelation by state chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Felix Obuah, that some commissioners would soon dump APC for PDP, is anything to go by.
Addressing party supporters in Port Harcourt yesterday, during the official defection of the Deputy Governor, Tele Ikuru, to PDP, Obuah said some commissioners were set to dump APC for PDP.
Obuah, who gladly received Ikuru back to the party fold, handed the symbolic umbrella to him, saying; “more commissioners in Governor Amaechi’s cabinet would soon decamp to the PDP.”
The chairman said he would be ready to receive APC members that are willing to come back, but with the exception of Governor Amaechi.
“I will not be prepared to receive Amaechi. Ikuru was the real politician in the APC. Now that we have him, there will be no need to bother about Amaechi. With the big fish back to the PDP, we are now ready to go,” he said.
In his speech, the Deputy Governor, who resigned his membership of the APC last Sunday, said he was deceived into joining APC by Governor Amaechi.
He told the crowd how Governor Amaechi al
From CHRIS ANUCHA, Port HarcTehe heairman of All Progr nssiv Congress (APC), Rivers State, Dr Davietnya, has said that one of rthe reasons the deputy govemped tohe PDP was his failure to realize his ambit of becoming the governor the of the state.
In a statement he issued in Port Harcourt, shortly after Ikuru announced his defection, Ikanya, said the deputy governor’s defection did not come to many as a surprise.
According to him, the PDP and Ikuru had thought that Governor Amaechi would be impeached to pave the way for him to become the governor.
He alleged further: “In keeping with the plot of making Ikuru the substantive Governor of Rivers State, PDP set in motion, a machinery to use five misguided members of the State House of Assembly to impeach the Speaker, but the move was foiled by the Majority Leader, Hon. Chidi Lloyd, and other loyal members of the House. The plan was that, after impeaching the Speaker, the five renegade lawmakers would go ahead to impeach Governor Amaechi and subsequently, declare Engr. Tele Ikuru as the substantive Governor.
“When this plot failed, Ikuru was asked to remain in APC, in the hope that the Presidency would somehow, find a way to force Governor Amaechi out of office. As part of this plot, the Presidency contrived a crisis, with regard to the appointment of a Chief Judge for the State, but failed to actualise the appointment of Justice Daisy Okocha, who was expected to facilitate the impeachment of Governor Amaechi.
When this plot failed, PDP resorted to the mobilisation of ex-militants, from Bayelsa and Rivers states, to protest in the State, in the hope that this would result in a insecurity crisis, to be used as an excuse by the Presidency to declare a state of emergency in Rivers, and impose Engr. Ikuru as Governor.
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