Breaking: Wike Offers To Resign If…

Governor Nyesom Wike on Saturday offered to resign his office on the condition that his predecessor, Chibuike Amaechi is able to point to a project he has attracted to the state since his appointment as minister of transportation in 2015.

Wike threw down the gauntlet just as the foundation chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State, Dr. Davies Ikanya apologized for his role in bringing the party to the state saying he never knew the party was founded on hypocrisy.

The duo spoke at a ceremony where some of the leading lights of the APC in Rivers State defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Port-Harcourt.

Another major defector was Hon. Igo Aguma, the chairman of a faction of the APC that was recently delegitimized by a Supreme Court judgment.

The governor, who cited several projects he attracted to Rivers State while he was Minister of State for Education under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, challenged Amaechi to emulate him by reviving the moribund Port Harcourt seaports in order to create employment opportunity for Rivers’ youths.

He said that should Amaechi do so that he would resign as governor!

Governor Wike narrated that but for his intervention, former Commissioner for Urban and Rural Planning, Dr. Reason Onya, who recently defected to the APC would have been charged for murder following his indictment by a judicial panel of inquiry that investigated a multi-story building that  collapse in Port Harcourt and claimed several lives in 2018.

The State PDP chairman, Ambassador Desmond Akawor said the defection of Dr. Ikanya, Aguma and others marks the formal interment of the opposition party in Rivers State.

Narrating his reason for leaving the APC which he founded in Rivers State , Dr. Davies Ikanya explained that he cannot with good conscience remain in a political party that was built on deception.

According to him, all the expectation that the APC will provide security, create employment opportunities and better life for Nigerians have turned out to be a mere mirage.

Ikanya said it was regrettable that the party has been hijacked by persons who place their personal interest far above the party.

He used the occasion to apologise to the governor and people of Rivers State for introducing the APC to the State, which has been peacefully governed by the PDP since 1999.

On his part, the immediate past caretaker committee chairman of APC, Hon. Igo Aguma accused Amaechi of brainwashing him and others to join the APC.

APC chieftains who defected to PDP are:   Chief Ogbogbo Nnamdi, Hon. Isobo Jack (former caretaker chairman, APC), Barrister Paul Nwankwoala, (former APC legal adviser), Hon. Faaye Franklin, Chief Andy Nweye (pioneer spokesperson of APC), Hon. Alamese Martins-Yellow, Hon. Ilamabo Mirila, Dr. More Oja-Chinda, Hon. Benibo Anabraraba (former minority leader, Rivers State House of Assembly), Hon. Alphine Whyte,  and Hon. Wisdom Wakama (former minority leader, Rivers State House of Assembly).

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