AMAECHI’S DEFECTION TO APC: WE’RE VINDICATED – RIVERS PDP

Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said yesterday that the official exit from the party by the aggrieved G7 governors, including Governor Rotimi Amaechi to the All Progressives Congress (APC) did not come as a shock to them but a vindication of the party’s earlier revelation.
The party noted with satisfaction what it called a welcome development and a big relief for its
leadership and its other genuine members who have continued to “tolerate the rebellious and in subordinate behaviour and actions of Governor Amaechi and his allies over the period in the state and at the national level”.
The party said in a statement signed by Jerry Needam, special adviser on media to the state chairman Amaechi’s defection to APC would now make the PDP to be better placed and focused to deliver to the people of the state
the much desired development and
programmes which have been “illusive following the internal ache which acted like a virus to the party by Governor Amaechi and his co-travellers”.
The statement said the Amaechi’s defection is inconsequential to the success of PDP in Rivers State and the nation at large, saying rather than create adverse effect on the party, it would further strengthen it at all levels.
To this end, the Rivers PDP said in the coming days, it would organize a thanksgiving service in celebration of the exit of the undesirable elements and to thank God for answering its prayers.
While calling on its members to join it in thanking God for being delivered from the evil that has held the party in bondage in the state and at the national level, the party urged its members to remain steadfast and committed, noting that time has come for those who have been held captive to be liberated.
It further congratulated all those who “have over the period joined hands with its leadership in fighting against dictatorship, impunity and abuse of rights of the citizenry in Rivers State,” adding that “we wish Governor Amaechi.and his ill-fated train best of luck in their future endeavour”.