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PDP behind Rivers political killings —APC alleges
PDP behind Rivers political killings —APC alleges
Berates party for rushing to court to stop sitting of commission of enquiry
By Nwaorgu Faustinus
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has berated the State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for allegedly sponsoring political killings in the State, and rushing to court to stop the sitting of the Commission of Enquiry set up by the State Government to investigate the killings.
“The news of
the suit brought by Rivers PDP before Justice H. A. Nganjiwa
of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt seeking
to restrain the Commission of Enquiry set up by the Rivers
State Government to investigate the political killings in
the State did not come to us a surprise as we have been
consistent in identifying PDP as the sponsor of these
despicable murders. In reality, the suit is nothing but a
self-indictment by the Rivers State PDP, which has by so
doing erased any reasonable doubt that it is behind the
political violence in the State that has sent close to 100
innocent APC members to their untimely grave,” Rivers APC
Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, said on Sunday
morning.
Ikanya, however, expressed disappointment
that the revered Justice Nganjiwa fell for PDP’s antics by
granting the restraining order sought by the murderous
party.
“We hold Justice Nganjiwa in high esteem and
we wish to appeal to him to vacate this restraining order at
the next adjourned date to enable the Commission of Enquiry
do its work. We are talking of human life and we
respectfully appeal to His Lordship not to create an escape
route for murderers to get away with their atrocities,”
Ikanya said in a statement issued in the state capital, Port
Harcourt.
He expressed confidence that Rivers PDP’s
desperate efforts to evade justice and to subvert the will
of Rivers people and heighten insecurity, kidnapping and
other criminal activities through the instrumentality of the
court would eventually fail.
Rivers APC sympathised
with the people of the State over their present ordeal, as
the State is today back to the era of insecurity, kidnapping
and killings due to the desperation of PDP to capture power
at all cost. “All these are evils which the APC Government
of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi eradicated, only for them to be
brought back by the Rivers State PDP leadership. We appeal
to the good people of Rivers State to endure this sad
development for the few months PDP will be in power before
it is kicked out through legal means,” the statement
said.
“The good people of Rivers State, particularly
the survivors of those murdered in cold blood by PDP agents,
can be assured that this evil party can only delay justice
but cannot stop the avenging of the shed innocent blood. On
our part, we are determined to ensure that justice is done
in this matter and people who do not meant well for our
State are not allowed to govern us no matter the conspiracy
of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and
the outgoing PDP-controlled Presidency,” Rivers APC
added.
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