The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples
Democratic Party, (PDP) has decried the wasted state resources into the aborted
All Progressives Congress, (APC) chieftains’ visit to Rivers State today,
describing it as yet another gamble with the tax payers’ money by Governor
Chibuike Amaechi who has in recent times resorted to draining the state's
treasury.
The party through a statement signed by the
Special Adviser on Media to its Chairman, Jerry Needam said though it is not
bothered by the crack on the APC which caused the postponement of the visit to
Port Harcourt, it’s worried that all boils down to lavishing state funds that
could be channeled to other productive ventures on mere political jamboree.
The statement further regrets that all Gov
Amaechi could feel of the teeming unemployed Rivers youths is to pay them the
paltry sum of N50,000 each to make up the rented crowd from the neighbouring
states of Edo and Imo.
This, the party said has vindicated it for
raising alarm on the way and manner Gov Amaechi relishes in mismanaging the
state resources just to satisfy his fancies.
“By the time you put together the over N500,000million
earmarked to the feeding, accommodation and paying the rented crowd for what
was scheduled as a one day event which is now going to only God knows how many
days, over N1billion of our state resources would have been wasted only in
hosting politician friends from outside Rivers State”, the party reasoned.
The party noted with dismay that it’s only
in Rivers State that a state that is so broke as not to maintain even half of
its dilapidated internal road network that such wanton arrogance and bravado
can be displayed.
This is to say the least unfortunate, it
remarked.
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