APC calls plot to force Amaechi to resign ”last desperate act

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has
condemned the reported plot to abduct, blackmail
and force Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers to
resign from office, calling it the last desperate act of
those who are bent on getting rid of the Governor at
all costs.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its
Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, the party said that the plot, which was
exposed by the Rivers Peoples Forum, should be
taken very seriously, against the background of a
similar occurrence in the past and the outcry by
Gov. Amaechi that his life is in danger.
”Anyone who thinks this alarm by the Rivers
Peoples Forum is outlandish should remember what
happened to then Anambra State Governor Chris
Ngige, who was abducted and rough handled in
2003 in what is undoubtedly the most egregious
violation of democratic institutions in our country’s
history.
”The instigators and perpetrators of the crisis in
Rivers are keenly aware that they are running out of
options. Their impeachment plan has been foiled by
the take over of the legislative functions of the
Rivers State House of Assembly’s functions by the
the National Assembly, while their plan to declare a
state of
emergency in the state has also failed, against the
lack of support for such act by the National
Assembly.
”This is the reason for this last desperate act by
an increasingly-desperate Presidency, which may
not exclude a final solution. We are therefore, for
the umpteenth time, calling on civil society and
human rights organizations, opinion leaders and
indeed all lovers of democracy and believers in
constitutional
rule to intervene to stop the runaway culture of
impunity in Rivers State,” it said
APC said it is instructive that a day after the Rivers
Peoples Forum exposed the plot against Gov.
Amaechi, the so-called chair of the PDP in Rivers,
Felix Obuah, set out to prepare the grounds for
the devilish plot when he called a press conference
to deliver a harangue against Gov. Amaechi whom
he accused of ”insulting and dragging the names of
President GoodLuck and the First Lady, Dame (Dr)
Patience Jonathan to the mud”.
”There can be no better confirmation of the evil plot
than this,” the party said.
It also warned that the madness in Rivers State,
which is being carried out under the watch of the
Presidency, which has made the state’s Police
Commissioner the de facto Governor with a
clear instruction to neutralize the elected
Governor, should not be seen as an isolated
incident, but as a part of a grand plot and a test run
for 2015.
”As we have said before, the crisis in Rivers is
being deliberately orchestrated to test the waters
ahead of the 2015 elections, with the belief that if
the perpetrators get away with the
massive impunity in the state, it can then be
extended to other states before 2015 to ensure that
the polls will be everything but free, fair and
transparent, and also to satisfy the yearnings of
a President who is obsessed with winning re-
election.
”The daylight rape of democracy in Delta state on
Oct. 12th by those who prevented elections from
holding, only to announce concocted results, is also
part of this plot. The new strategy is to use security
agencies, especially the police and the military,
to undermine democracy. We have not seen the last
of these dangerous games, hence the need for all to
be vigilant,” APC sai