Tens of thousands of members of the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) from across the 23 local Government Areas of Rivers state
reportedly took to major streets of Port Harcourt yesterday Wednesday,
November 27, 2013 to celebrate the exit of Governor Chibuike Amaechi
from PDP.
Marching from the state PDP Secretariat on Aba
Road, through Garrison, Waterlines and Rumuola, the jubilant party
faithful carried placards with varying inscriptions congratulating the
PDP leadership and thanking God for hearing their prayers and ending the
alleged intractable crisis in their party occasioned by Governor
Amaechi’s inordinate political ambition.
A statement issued and
signed by Jerry Needam, Special Adviser, Media to the state chairman of
the PDP, Felix Obuah said the spontaneous gathering and road march by
the party members from all the wards across the state was a
demonstration of the people’s unflinching faith in the PDP and peace
longed for, and which
has been restored with the exit of Gov. Amaechi
into where he rightly belongs, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The
statement commended the understanding, trust and orderly conduct
exhibited by these party members and supporters, stressing that Amaechi
and his decampee supporters should be gnashing their teeth for the
blunder of pulling out of the PDP which it further described as a
welcome development.
Addressing the crowd at the party
secretariat before the liberty march, the state Deputy Chairman, Mouwan
Etete, and secretary of the PDP, Hon. Ibibia Walter said it calls for a
thanksgiving service that at last, the obstacle that had held the party
down has been uprooted.
They noted that exit of Amaechi is a
signal that the party remains supreme and will not tolerate
indiscipline, warning that anybody that so indulges or seen to have
indulged in anti-party activities will also be shown the way out.
“The
PDP is happy with the latest development and wishes to reaffirm that
the party is more united, purposeful and stronger as would be
demonstrated in future elections in the state. We are on top of the
situation”, they reassured.
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