{"id":2163,"date":"2014-09-29T08:29:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T08:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2014-09-29T08:29:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T08:29:03","slug":"pdp-cant-win-rivers-apc-replies-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2163","title":{"rendered":"PDP can\u2019t win Rivers, APC replies Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

THE All Progressives Congress has described as ridiculous President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s statement that the Peoples Democratic Party will recover Rivers and Edo States from the hands of the APC in the 2015 and 2016 governorship elections.<\/p>\n

The Chairman of the Rivers State Chapter of the APC, Dr. Davies Ikanya, explained that the President\u2019s optimism was not in line with the realities on the ground in Rivers.<\/p>\n

President Jonathan had during a rally organised by the South-South PDP in Edo State on Saturday boasted that his party would take over power after the governorship elections in the two states.<\/p>\n

But Ikanya said in a statement on Sunday by his Senior Special Adviser on Media, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, that the President\u2019s optimism was based on ignorance about the political realities in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe All Progressives Congress, Rivers State chapter, has dismissed as ridiculous the boast by President Goodluck Jonathan that his Peoples Democratic Party will recover the state from the hands of the APC during the 2015 general elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis boast made on Saturday by President Jonathan during the PDP\u2019s South-South rally in Benin City, the Edo State capital, is ridiculous because it runs counter to the realities on ground in Rivers State.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Jonathan\u2019s boast is obviously based on ignorance about current political realities in Rivers State. He may not have known that the state PDP leader and prospective governorship candidate, Nyesome Wike, has polarised the PDP in Rivers State to the extent that it cannot even win a councillorship seat in a free and fair election.<\/p>\n

\u201cWike (Minister of State for Education) is either deluding himself or deliberately feeding Mr. President with lies in a bid to feather his nest,\u201d Ikanya added.<\/p>\n

Ikanya listed one of the sins of the Jonathan administration against the state as the ceding of oil wells belonging to Rivers to Bayelsa State.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn what basis should the people of Rivers State vote for the PDP in 2015? Is it based on the ceding of our oil wells to his home state of Bayelsa and supporting Akwa Ibom and Abia states to take over our oil wells?<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it because he has ensured that the Federal Government does not cite any meaningful project in Rivers State or his deliberate refusal to implement the UNEP Report on Ogoni?<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Jonathan has left no one in doubt of his deep hatred for Rivers State and her people. So, how can we support him or any PDP candidate in 2015,\u201d the state APC chairman queried.<\/p>\n

Ikanya, however, expressed optimism that the achievements of the state Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, were enough to give the APC victory in future elections conducted in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE All Progressives Congress has described as ridiculous President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s statement that the Peoples Democratic Party will recover Rivers and Edo States from the hands of the APC in the 2015 and 2016 governorship elections. The Chairman of the Rivers State Chapter of the APC, Dr. Davies Ikanya, explained that the President\u2019s optimism was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rivers-State-Governor-Rotimi-Amaechi-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-yT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}