Senator Abe's Shooting Was Staged Managed..Rivers PDP

 

The Rivers state chapter of the PDP has said the whole story surrounding the alleged shooting of Abe was dramatised and full of fiction.

A statement issued by the media aide to the state chairman, Mr. Jerry Needam, said an incident at the Gokana Local government Council secretariat yesterday in which some youths vandalised sections of the complex while demanding payment for being part of the protest vindicated the stand of the party.

The statement said: “The Peoples Democratic Party, Rivers State chapter, says the attack on some sections of the Gokana Council secretariat today, Monday, January 13, 2014 by angry youths vindicates our earlier position that the whole story surrounding the alleged shooting of the Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District, Magnus Abe was dramatised and full of fiction.

“The party notes with bitterness the level of desperation on the part of Governor Chubuike Amaechi and his allies which led them to hire thugs to cause obstruction to movement and activities along the Ogoni axis of the East-West Road early today (yesterday) in a quest to draw attention to the alleged shooting of the senator yesterday (Sunday) in Port Harcourt.

“The PDP says it is vindicated as the thugs who were promised N10,000 each on completion of their assignment on the road, by their employers, were disappointed with the payment of N1,000 each, an action that ignited the youths to vent their anger on the Gokana Council secretariat building, leading to the looting and massive damage of some sections of the building and vehicles parked around the vicinity.

“The thugs also in a bid to get the N10,000 each, as promised, are on the trail of the Gokana Council Chairman, Mr Ledee Demua Ledee and the State Commissioner for Works, Chief Victor Giadom, who the hoodlums said engaged them.”

The PDP also said it welcomed the resignation of the state Commissioner for Housing, Hon. Stanley Uwom, from Amaechi’s cabinet.

The statement said the party believes that “it is only men without courage and those who prefer to continue to act irresponsibly that will allow themselves to be tossed around by Governor Amaechi,” adding that “in no distant time, the governor will be left alone to hide his face in shame.”

On its part, SRM raised the alarm over five of its members, which it said were still missing following the police attack that scuttled its rally at Rumuola in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State last Sunday.
Chairman of SRM, Mr. Charles Aholu, made the disclosure yesterday while briefing journalists on the botched rally of the movement.

Aholu, however, refused to disclose the names of the missing persons for what he described as “security reasons”.

He restated that the police lied when it said the movement neither applied for nor got a police permit for the rally.

He said: “In the first place, I want to categorically debunk the assertion by the Police Commissioner that there was no official communication between Save Rivers Movement and the police to hold a rally.
“Precisely on January 7, 2014, the SRM notified the police authorities and we have a copy of that notification here of our rally in Obio/Akpor and Khana Local Governments Areas respectively and it is stamped received.

“It is very clear for all to see. So that assertion by the CP that there was no form of communication on our programme is not only false, it is an attempt to stop us from legitimately pursuing our objectives as provided under the constitution of Save Rivers Movement and enjoying our rights as guaranteed under the Constitution of Nigeria.”