3/24/2015

Six rivers commissioners set to dump APC for PDP

Firstclass newsline gathered that a yet to be palpable fear in the
camp of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State as speculations
were rife on Monday that six commissioners in Governor Rotimi
Amaechi's cabinet were set to defect to the People democratic Party on
friday.
The governor's deputy, Mr. Tele Ikuru, had defected to the PDP on
Sunday with a promise that his supporters would soon join him in his
new party.
Five commissioners were seen to be Amaechi's die-hard supporters,
other commissioners could be well out of the APC and were only waiting
for the right time.
A reliable source in the Government House, Port Harcourt, told our
correspondent that he could only vouch for commissioners in charge of
Information, Agriculture, Works and two other ministries, adding that
those who stood for pecuniary gains could defect to the PDP.
"Yes, the deputy governor has defected and you will agree with me that
he (Ikuru) has supporters who will definitely want to go with him. We
are suspecting them already and very soon, they will show themselves.
"But one thing is clear, the Amaechi they are betraying has always
stood by them. Amaechi does not betray anybody and anything he tells
you today, check in the next 20 years, he will still maintain his
stand," the source said.
A House of Assembly source who spoke to firstclass newsline crew
said that he could no longer vouch for all the state legislators
because some of them now believed in stomach infrastructure.
He insisted that some members of the House who believed in integrity
would continue to stay with the governor.
AlThough, the Assembly source did not mention any member likely to
defect to the PDP, he said it would be unnecessary to assume that the
25 APC lawmakers were still intact.
"The party may have infiltrated them within the past 12 months and you
must know that those who would leave by this time believe in stomach
infrastructure while those with integrity will continue to stay with
Amaechi," the source said.
Speaking through his aide, the State Commissioner for Works, Mr.
Victor Giadom, said that he was committed to the belief of Amaechi and
had never thought of defecting to another political party.
Giadom, who is also the Director-General of the Dakuku Peterside
Campaign Organisation, described the claim that some commissioners
would defect to the PDP as mere propaganda, adding that no
commissioner would leave the APC for another party.
The Chairman of the PDP in the state, Mr. Felix Obuah, predicted that
Amaechi would be left with only five commissioners after a possible
mass defection of his aides to the PDP.
"Amaechi has only five commissioners and more than two-thirds of the
members of the state House of Assembly have joined PDP. They are
already talking with me. Today, we are celebrating one of our own
(Ikuru) and his teeming supporters who have seen reasons in what we
are fighting for," he said.
Firstclassnewsline.net

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