The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has alleged that the “Nyesome Wike, gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has set up a three-man committee to study and clone the well-researched Four-Point Agenda of our governorship candidate, Dakuku Peterside.”
The party, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt and made available to Aproko247, noted that the alleged action of Wike “is entirely not surprising because he is a man without principles who has been campaigning without any defined agenda for the development and emancipation of Rivers State than the spreading of violence.”
The statement pointed out that Peterside’s “Four-Point Agenda entitled ‘Road Map To Prosperity’ will serve as an instrument to be used to revolutionise Rivers State under the envisaged Dakuku Peterside administration.”
“The truth is that Wike is not prepared for the serious job of governing a complex state like Rivers and was conscripted into the race by his paymasters in Abuja as a ploy by the PDP and the Presidency to deny the Riverine part of Rivers an opportunity to have a shot at the seat of power after 16 years of governorship by the Upland part of the State, out of which Wike’s kinsman, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, would have spent eight years by May 29, 2015 as Governor,” APC said.
“If Wike succeeds, it means that the Ikwerre tribe from which both Amaechi and Wike hail from, will govern Rivers State for eight more years and 16 years all together, to the detriment of other sections of the state. To us in Rivers State APC, this is injustice and wickedness of the highest order.
“We are happy that the royal fathers of Ikwerre Kingdom have adopted Peterside as sole candidate for the gubernatorial election in the spirit of equity. Unfortunately, Wike is hell-bent on truncating the rotating of power to the Riverine area of the State but he has already failed,” it added.
“We strongly condemn this brazen attempt by Wike to clone our agenda for his doomed campaign. We wish to appeal to the good people of Rivers State to take note of the emptiness and lack of vision and mission being exhibited by WIke and the Rivers State PDP in the countdown to the February elections.
“We once more appeal to the Rivers electorates to vote wisely during the elections as their interests will be best taken care of via the Four-Point Agenda, which serves as our commitment to revolutionise governance and take our State to the next level. The Four-Point Agenda, also known as ‘Road Map to Prosperity’ aimed at taking Rivers State to the next level, include Public Sector Accountability and Security of Lives and Properties; Employment Generation and Wealth Creation; Social and Human Capital Development and Empowerment; as well as Institutional and Physical infrastructure Development and Food Security.
“Let us for the avoidance of doubt emphasise that the choice before Rivers State has never been so crystal clear as it is for the 2015 polls. It is a choice between darkness and light, good and evil, justice and injustice; it is clear to all that APC through Dr Dakuku Peterside represents the light, the good and justice,” the party submitted.
