The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has raised alarm over an alleged plot by the Presidency to make a documentary aimed at maligning the person of the Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi.
It would be recalled that documentaries believed to be damaging were aired on a popular television station in Nigeria on Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The videos were believed to have been sponsored by agents of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to make Nigerians not vote for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the March 28, 2015 poll.
Chairman of the Rivers State Chapter of the APC, Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, said in a statement issued on Thursday in Port Harcourt that, “The plot, which was leaked to us by a patriotic Nigerian working in the Presidency, is intended to present Amaechi, who is also the Director General of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, as a power-hungry and corrupt politician, but nothing could be further from the truth.
“Having sponsored the production and airing of similar discredited documentaries on Buhari and Tinubu, the PDP-led Presidency and President Goodluck Jonathan’s strategists believe that Governor Amaechi is the next APC backbone to be targeted in this diabolical and desperate but futile attempt to stop APC’s march to victory in the March 28 presidential election.”
The press statement made it clear that Amaechi has no skeletons in his cupboard and has nothing to be afraid of, having served the good people of Rivers State to the best of his ability in the past almost eight years.
“We, therefore, wish to warn those behind this devilish and invidious plot to desist from executing it. We also wish to issue advance warning to media houses that may be tempted by the lure of lucre to promote or broadcast any satanic documentary on Governor Amaechi to perish the thought or prepare to meet us in court,” Ikanya said.
He advised President Goodluck Jonathan and his sinking party to stop wasting public funds sponsoring ill-conceived documentaries designed to tarnish the reputation of APC leaders, as this cannot save the party during the forthcoming polls.
“President Jonathan should know that the game is up as we expect him to work towards honourably leaving the stage as a statesman and avoid destroying the intuitions and people who have assisted him in his political journey.
“He has ran our economy aground and spread corruption as a way of life and the fact remains that Nigerians are tired of his maladministration, lack of vision and no amount of bribery or damage to any of our leaders will save him from the defeat that awaits him come 28th March, 2015,” Ikanya concluded.
