Ahead of the state's March 19th rerun election for the
state house of assembly members, House of Representatives and Senate members,
APC in Rivers state has listed 24 sins committed by former Nigerian president,
Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent governor of the state, Nyesom Wike and their
political party, PDP against the people of the state, urging the electorates to
vote against PDP during the elections.
The list of the 24 sins allegedly committed is contained
in a statement issued by the party's state chairman, Davies Ikanya, in Port
Harcourt, the state capital on Wednesday March 16th. Read the full list after
the cut ...
1. President Jonathan failed to muster the courage and
political will in a PDP-controlled National Assembly to see to the passage of
the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in the over six years of his administration
to demonstrate his hatred for the Niger Delta region knowing that communities
in Rivers State will benefit from the bill.
2 The East/West Road, especially Eleme-Onne axis in
Rivers State, was not only abandoned but was a nightmare to travellers and
commuters.
3 Bodo-Bonny Federal Road was completely abandoned just
because it is situated in Rivers State.
4. Refusal to refund to the State Government over 90
billion naira used in the dualisation of Ikwerre-Owerri Road approved by late
President Yar’Adua and other Federal Roads in the State executed by the State
to ease the sufferings of the people of Rivers State.
5. Wickedly stopped Train 7 at NLNG Bonny and the loss of
jobs to our people and revenue to Government.
6 Non-implementation of UNEP Report on the clean-up of
Ogoni land despite all the pleas by our people and the International Community
– just to punish the Ogonis and Rivers State irrespective of their overwhelming
support for him during the 2011 elections.
7 Lack of any visible Federal Government project in
Rivers State throughout his over six years as President of Nigeria.
Instructively, of all the states Dr Jonathan has visited in the course of his
re-election campaign, it was only in Rivers that he could not name a single
development project he initiated, not to talk of executing.
8. Ceding of oil wells belonging to Rivers to Bayelsa and
Abia states to ensure that the revenue accruing to the State was reduced to
nothing.
9. Abandoned construction of the Port Harcourt
International Airport after completing other airports started at the same time
with it. The airport has thus become an eyesore and the worst airport in the
entire world. Pictures of the current state of the Airport attached explain the
level of hatred Dr Jonathan has for Rivers State and her people.
10. Turning the Port Harcourt axis of Enugu-Port Harcourt
Express Road into a death trap. The pictures attached of the bad state of the
road explain everything.
11. Posting and encouraging the excesses of the
tyrannical Police Commissioner Joseph Mbu during his inglorious days in the
State.
12. Supporting the impunity of daily killing, maiming of
members of Rivers APC by the Police under the watch of Dan Barure then
Commissioner of Police of the State.
13. Supporting every imaginable act of impunity in the
State, including the plot by five State Assembly members to impeach the Speaker
in a House of 31 members.
14. Seizing and grounding the planes of the State for no
just cause.
15. Harassing and intimidating the then Governor of
Rivers State (Rt. Hon. Amaechi) for no just cause and even supporting the
splitting of the Governors Forum into two just to ensure that Governor Amaechi,
who was duly elected by his colleagues, does not have an easy reign as the
Chairman of the Forum.
16. Refusal to allow the then Governor of the state to
construct the Federal Road that leads to the Kalabari Kingdom just to ensure
that during the rainy season the Kalabaris will not have a road to their place.
17..Refusal to refund the State the money used to
construct the smooth, beautiful dual carriageway from Omerelu to Port Harcourt
– particularly up to the Airport Junction from Owerri in Imo State, which the
Federal Government abandoned just because Rivers State people ply that road.
18. Refusal to refund the money used by Rivers State to
construct the Ahoada/Elele Alimini Federal Road and the interchange (Flyover)
at Obiri Ikwerre.
19. Refusal to attend to the poor state of the Onne –
Port Harcourt component of the East/West Road. This is the road that services
the Port Harcourt Refinery from where petroleum products are supplied to the
South East and parts of the South South. That is the road that leads to the
Onne Free Zone and to Okrika, the home Local Government of Dame Patience
Jonathan, Nigeria’s former First Lady.
20. Turning a blind eye while his party continues to
kill, bomb and disrupt APC rallies.
21. Against the spirit of equity, unity, justice and fair
play, Dr Jonathan and his wife, Damee patience Jonathan imposed Chief Nyesome
Wike a cancellous fellow from the Ikwerre tribe as PDP candidate and Governor
of Rivers State, knowing very well that the former Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike
Rotimi Amaechi, was also of Ikwerre extraction and that with Chief Wike as
Governor that the Ikwerre tribe will governed Rivers State for 16 years to the
detriment of other tribes and sections of the State. This shows that Dr
Jonathan and his son and unjust party do not wish Rivers State any good.
22. Former President Jonathan released all the N25
Billion that accrued from the principle of derivation from the five Soku Oil
Wells that rightly belong to Rivers State kept in reserve for Rivers State and
Bayelsa State were all paid to Bayelsa State his home State to prove his hatred
for Rivers State.
23. As a President, Dr Jonathan continued to under fund
the NDDC to ensure that Rivers State and in extension the Niger Delta region is
not developed, till the time he left office, over N700B owed by the Federal
Government was not paid to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
24. Refused to empower and fund the Ministry of Niger
Delta Affairs initiated by the Yar-Adua’s administration. The then Minister of
Niger Delta once stated that the N41.7B due to the Ministry was not paid until
Dr Jonathan left office to ensure that 90 percent of the projects initiated by
the Ministry were not executed by the Ministry in Rivers State and other Niger
Delta States.
Ikanya said: “These, amongst other wicked acts against
Rivers State for reasons only to be explained by Dr Jonathan are why no PDP
should be voted for this Saturday’s poll.
He then said: “For the record, Dr Jonathan is from
Bayelsa, a sister State to Rivers. He is married to Dame Patience Jonathan, who
is from Rivers State and having schooled in UNIPORT and lectured in the State
before joining politics; one would have expected him to be a key factor in the
development of Rivers State after the State gave him the highest number of
votes in the 2011 presidential election though not shockingly, he was the
greatest undoing of his party in the 2015 general election.”
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