APC reveals Wike wasted Rivers funds on PDP convention

– APC says Wike wasted Rivers funds on the convention
– The opposition party in Rivers state demands public apology
– They say Sheriff should have known he was surrounded by betrayers
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state has accused Governor Nyesom Wike, of ‘burning’ a whooping N10 billion on the supposed convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held in the state at the weekend.
The opposition party in the state asked the governor, a member of the PDP, to publicly apologize for wasting the amount to organize a congress the party thinks is a coup against Ali Modu Sheriff, the sacked national chairman of the party.
Nyesom Wike of Rivers state with party members
Vanguard reports that the demand was made in a statement by the APC chairman in the state, Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, on Tuesday.
“The well-advertised PDP national convention in Port Harcourt has come and gone with its disastrous outcome. With the party now factionalised into three, the demise of the once greatest political party in Africa is not far from sight.
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“As much as we sympathise with the endangered party of the torn umbrella, we hereby unreservedly condemn Chief Nyesom Wike for wasting a whopping sum of N10 billion belonging to the good people of Rivers state on this charade, especially in these lean times.
“This is not only condemnable but also abhorrent and unacceptable to the good people of Rivers state. We therefore request Chief Wike and his co-travellers to account for and return this huge sum to the Rivers state treasury as we cannot continue to fold our hands and watch him mortgage the future of Rivers state through his shocking financial recklessness,” the APC said.
The party further said: “Those PDP leaders who gathered in Port Harcourt to waste the scarce resources of Rivers state are as guilty as their host, Chief Wike.
“For crying out loud, they should have known that the so called national convention would be a charade in view of the court order barring any such exercise and with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) stating from the very beginning that it would neither participate nor recognise the outcome of the purported convention.”
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Sympathising with Sheriff, who was sacked by governors of the party and replaced with Ahmed Markafi, a former governor, the APC wondered how despite his financial experience, embattled party chairman could allow himself to be so disgraced by Wike.
The party reminded Sheriff that Wike and Goodluck Jonathan, a former president, betrayed Rotimi Amaechi and others and sent them away from the party thus destroying it.
“We wonder why Sheriff is crying that he was betrayed at Port Harcourt.
“If we may ask, does a leopard change its spots? If Wike could betray and ridicule Amaechi, who did everything humanly possible to make him Obio-Akpor local government chairman, his chief of staff and nominated him as a ministe, then we wonder why Sheriff or any other PDP leader should trust him not to betray them.”