The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday admonished the state governor, Chief Nyesom Wike to apologise and refund the N10bn state fund allegedly used in financing the last Saturday’s National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Chairman of the state chapter of the party, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya made the demand in Port Harcourt, the state capital according to a report by Vanguard.
According to Ikanya, “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.
“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 cotravellers 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 state chapter of the ruling party criticised the opposition party leaders and members who attended the ill-fated convention.
“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,” he said.
