The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state, has accused the governorship candidate of the PDP in the state, Nyesom Wike of attempting to study and clone the four-point agenda of the APC candidate, Dakuku Peterside. Peterside’s four-point agenda is entitled ‘Road Map to Prosperity’.
“This attempt by Chief Wike to steal our candidate’s ideas is entirely not surprising because he is a man without principles who has been campaigning without any defined agenda for the development and emancipation of Rivers State than the spreading of violence. The truth is that Wike is not prepared for the serious job of governing a complex State like Rivers and was conscripted into the race by his paymasters in Abuja as a ploy by the PDP and the Presidency to deny the Riverine part of Rivers an opportunity to have a shot at the seat of power after 16 years of governorship by the Upland part of the State, out of which Chief Wike’s kinsman, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, would have spent eight years by May 29, 2015 as Governor,” said the APC in a statement signed by Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, the SSA on media and public affairs to the Rivers APC chairman.
The APC statement said that victory for Wike would b unjust as it would mean that the Ikwerre tribe from which both Amaechi and Wike hail from, “will govern Rivers State for eight more years and sixteen years all together, to the detriment of other sections of the State.” A governorship term in Nigeria is for four years and it is unclear why the APC is arguing already that a vote for the PDP is a vote for another eight years of rule by an Ikwerre man.
The APC said that Wike has set up a three-man committee for the purpose of studying and cloning the APC roadmap. Eze said: “We strongly condemn this brazen attempt by Chief Wike to clone our agenda for his doomed campaign.”
According to the statement, “The Four-Point Agenda, also known as ‘Road Map to Prosperity’ aimed at taking Rivers State to the next level, include Public Sector Accountability and Security of Lives and Properties; Employment Generation and Wealth Creation; Social and Human Capital Development and Empowerment; as well as Institutional and Physical infrastructure Development and Food Security.
“Let us for the avoidance of doubt emphasise that the choice before Rivers State has never been so crystal clear as it is for the 2015 polls. It is a choice between darkness and light, good and evil, justice and injustice; it is clear to all that APC through Dr Dakuku Peterside represents the light, the good and justice.”
RIvers APC accuses Wike of trying to clone the APC four-point agenda
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