Drama in Port Harcourt as anti Amaechi protesters celebrate his exit - Says it's "good riddance"

Anti Amaechi protesters celebrating the gov's defection in Rivers State

It was a sight of pure drama as tens of thousands of members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from across the 23 local Government Areas of Rivers State took to major streets of Port

Harcourt recently to celebrate the exit of Governor Chibuike Amaechi from PDP. In fact, one of the elated indigenes who spoke with us happily described Amaechi's defection to APC as. "Good riddance... Let him go, enough of his betrayals on Rivers people. No evil goes unpunished, Amaechi must surely pay one day. We are even tired of his dishonourable ways of ruling our great state. He talks too much and does little with all the huge federal allocation at his disposal..."

Marching from the State PDP Secretariat on Aba Road, through Garrison, Waterlines, Rumuola, and other parts of the state, the jubilant Party faithful carried placards with varying inscriptions congratulating the PDP leadership and thanking God for hearing their prayers and ending the intractable crisis in their party occasioned by Governor Amaechi’s inordinate political ambition.

A statement issued and signed by Jerry Needam, Special Adviser, Media to the State Chairman of the PDP, Bro Felix Obuah said the spontaneous gathering and road march by the Party members from all the wards across the State was a demonstration of the people’s unflinching faith in the PDP and peace longed for, and which has been restored with the exit of Gov. Amaechi into where he rightly belongs, the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The statement commended the understanding, trust and orderly conduct exhibited by these party members and supporters, stressing that Amaechi and his decampee supporters should be gnashing their teeth for the blunder of pulling out of the PDP which it further described as a welcome development.

Addressing the mammoth crowd at the party Secretariat before the liberty march, the State Deputy Chairman, Deacon Mouwan Etete, and State Secretary of the PDP, Hon. Ibibia Walter said it calls for a thanksgiving service that at last, the obstacle that had held the Party down has been uprooted.

With the exit of Governor Amaechi, the PDP chiefs  further noted, is a signal that the Party remains supreme and will not tolerate indiscipline, warning that anybody that so indulges or seen to have indulged in anti-party activities will also be shown the way out.

“The PDP is happy with the latest development and wishes to reaffirm that the Party is more united, purposeful and stronger as would be demonstrated in future elections in the State. We are on top of the situation”, they reassured.