Rivers APC Not Afraid of Ekiti State Election Outcome

The All Progressives
Congress (APC), Rivers
State Chapter, has
dismissed as a fluke,
last Saturday’s
dislodgement of the
party by the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP)
during the governorship
election in Ekiti State.
“This development, which was unexpected, does not portend anything any
danger for the APC in 2015, especially in Rivers State. The Ekiti election has
come and gone and we have learnt our lessons which will ensure better
outings in other elections. That election will go a long way to unite and
strengthen us the more to present a better APC to Nigerians for the battle to
rescue and reposition Nigeria gets hot,” Rivers APC Chairman, Dr. Davies
Ibiamu Ikanya, said.
Dr. Ikanya, who was responding to enquiries on the fate of APC in view of
what happened in Ekiti, emphatically declared in a statement he issued today
in Port Harcourt: “It is erroneous to think that what happened in Ekiti affects
or will affect Rivers State politics come 2015. The factors that led us losing
Ekiti are well known but totally different from the reality in Rivers State. No
matter the challenges or odds, Rivers remains an APC State. I am supremely
confident that the good people of Rivers State will renew their covenant with
APC with a landslide in 2015.”
The Rivers APC
Chairman gave an idea
of how the party would
run the 2015 elections
and obliterate PDP in
the state. “One thing
going for us in River
State is that we have a
President Goodluck
Jonathan of the PDP
whose hatred for our
state and her people is
legendary not minding
that he is from our
sister state Bayelsa
and our in-law and we gave him the highest number of votes that made him
the President. Our campaign strategy will be centered on this hatred, which
has manifested in the hounding of Governor Chibuike Amaechi, the ceding of
our oil wells to Bayelsa and Abia states and refusal to direct Akwa Ibom to
pay us the proceeds of our oil wells she kept for many years. Mr. President
has also refused to site any meaningful project in Rivers State, so how can
we support him or any PDP candidate in 2015?
“In any case, the feats of the Amaechi administration are enough to give us
victory in future elections. These feats, which are well known, include making
Port Harcourt the World Book Capital City, eradication of militancy, dogged
fight for the oil wells and other rights of Rivers State and her people, as well
as award-winning achievements in Education, Agriculture, Health, etc.”
Dr. Ikanya said that, in addition to all these, “we will ask the good people of
Rivers State to make their choice of the characters and vision of those in
PDP (insecurity, ungodly, etc) and the vision and characters in APC
(godliness, security and concern for the future of our state). These are the
issues for Rivers State to use to decide which of the parties governs River
State come 2015.”
He concluded by advising APC faithful in the state not to panic or fear
about the future of the party, as “Rivers people have since adopted APC as
the party of their choice and there is nothing the doomed PDP or any other
party can do about that.” Source >> dailypost.