YOU MUST CALL YOUR MEN TO ORDER - GOV AMAECHI SEND WARNING TO PRESIDENT GOODLUCK
YOU MUST CALL YOUR MEN TO ORDER - GOV AMAECHI SEND WARNING TO PRESIDENT GOODLUCK
On Tuesday there was a disastrous attack on APC supporters by suspected members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Rivers State Governor and Director-General of Buhari Presidential Campaign, Chibuike Amaechi has told President Goodluck Jonathan to call his hoodlums to order.
He said that PDP members should refrain from attacking members of his party in Rivers State and across the country.
He spoke after APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari visited the victims of the attack numbering about nine at the Kelsey Harrison Hospital in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
Mr Amachi said: “Imagine that the President goes to campaign in Katsina or in Kano and his convoy is attacked, imagine that, we will condemn it. In the same manner, we expect the President and the Peoples’ Democratic Party should condemn this violence that has been visited on us by their members and we expect that they should be able to control their members”.
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“The President can’t be promising us free, fair and violence-free elections, if he says violence-free election, and here we have already experienced violence, what is he expecting us to do?” he asked. “I have continued to say that if the state is not able to provide security for individuals, individuals begin to provide security for themselves and I pray that people don’t begin to provide security for themselves. I pray that all of us should come out and support the state to provide security and the state must be ready to provide that security” He said that with these attacks, APC supporters has shown that the party is ready for a peacefull election.
“The fact that people are being attacked here and there is an indication that the PDP is not ready for a free, fair and violence-free elections”, he stated.
APC Rivers State gubernatorial candidate, Dakuku Peterside described the attacks as very horrible and that the elections won’t be allowed to be engulfed in violence.
Mr. Peterside said: “This is an unfortunate trend. I don’t want to believe that violence will characterize the 2015 elections because that is not what any one of us desire.
“The President has said severally, whether he means it or not is a different matter, that his ambition is not worth the blood of anybody and we agree with him to that extent but again, it is one thing to share your philosophy, it is another thing to see your people go clearly against what you believe in and you are doing nothing about it.
“I am optimistic that the President and his team and members of his party, the PDP will come out strongly and condemn this act of violence visited on members of the APC in Rivers State”.
The APC supporters were attacked as they made their way to the Muhammadu Buhari Presidential campaign flag-off in Port Harcourt.
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