As Rivers State Govt accuses Amaechi, Army of arresting PDP members
Admin l Thursday, March 07, 2019
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria – Rivers State Government has accused the Minister of Transportation Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and the GOC of 6 Division, Nigeria Army of masterminding the mass arrest of innocent Nigerians and prominent PDP members in the State.
The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Emma Okah, in a pree statement, alleged that “the essence of the arrests is to precipitate crisis and cause the INEC to postpone the elections in Rivers State. Failing this, the Minister will use the vacuum created by the absence of arrested leaders and rig the governorship election and force a candidate of his choice against the will of the people”.
Okah made this allegation following the arrest of the Commissioner for Education Dr Tamunosisi Gogo Jaja and his family by soldiers this Wednesday evening in Port Harcourt.
“We have been saying it repeatedly that the Minister of Transportation has been commanding the army in Port Harcourt to do unprofesional things and the crisis are spreading. He has been boasting that he has brought soldiers from Sokoto and other states to carry out his political agenda of disrupting or rigging elections on Saturday.”
He said arrested person would be kept behind bars till after the governorship elections in the State. According to him, alot of prominent persons have been pencilled down for arrest.
“Some of them are His Excellency Sir Celestine Omehia, former Gov of Rivers State; Rt Hon Austin Opara, former Dep Speaker of House of Reps; StatePDP Chairman Bro Felix Obuah; Elder statesman and former Chairman of UBA Chief Ferdinand Alabraba;; Sen Olaka Nwogu; Chief Sergeant Awuse; Sen Lee Maeba; former Sports Minister, Dr Tammy Danagogo; former Minister of Transportation, Dr Abiye Sekibo; former Nigerian Ambassador to South Korea, Desmond Akawor; Prince Emma Anyanwu; Seretary to the State Government, SSG, Sir Kenneth Kobani; Ejor N Ejor, Prof Blessing Didia, members of Rivers State House of Assembly; PDP candidates and National Assembly members elect; Alabo David Briggs, all commissioners and special advisers; Local Govermment Council Chairmen, Senator Thompson Sekibo, Chief Adokiye Amiesimaka, etc”, he said.
Okah added: “In the light of this development, the government calls on all PDP members not to be cowed by this development but be vigilant and resist arrest by these people.”.
