YOU CANT WIN RIVERS,APC TELLS JONATHAN The All Progressives Congress ( APC ) , Rivers State Chapter, has described last Saturday’ s dislodgement of the party at the Ekiti State gubernatorial election by the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) as a fluke . APC said irrespective of the strange development, on no account will PDP win the governorship election in the state as the 2015 general election year beckons. According to David Ibiama Ikanya, Rivers APC Chairman, “this development , which was unexpected , does not portend anything or 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 repositioning Nigeria .” 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 in Port Harcourt on Wednesday that: “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 spoke of how the party would run the 2015 elections and obliterate PDP in the state . “One thing going for us in Rivers 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 ?”
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 06:57:21 +0000
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