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The Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers State Chapter, says it is saddened by the
reckless manner the State Governor, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi has thrown the
State into a debtor State in the past three years by borrowing billions of Naira
for no just cause.
According to a statement sent to SHOWBIZPLUSng, the PDP wonders
why lawmakers that are not properly constituted and lack the legal standing to
make laws and give authorization or undertake such legal actions will abuse the
privilege of having access to certain facilities recklessly dispose themselves
to aiding the Governor Amaechi to squander the State resources and destroy the
future of the people.
To the PDP, the
latest N50 billion loan by the governor is unnecessary and one too many,
regretting that development on ground in the State, the environment and the
condition of the people and residents do not reflect the claims by the
government on the injection of the huge financial revenue and monthly
collections by the Amaechi administration since inception.
The PDP wonders
where the monies, the internally generated revenues, federal allocations and
loans collected, have all gone. This is what the PDP expects that the Governor
needs to explain to the people first before asking for further financial aid
from any funding or lending institutions, as not doing that puts more burden on
the incoming government.
The PDP is also
worried that those members of the State Assembly do not take into consideration
the implications of their actions, and thereby conniving with Gov. Amaechi,
whose intention understandably is to acquire more funds to enhance his sole
sponsorship of the All Progressives Congress, APC activities, in expectation of
a Presidential ticket for him from the Party.
Further loan
facility to Governor Amaechi is unacceptable and should not be granted by the
approachable financial institutions.
It is our view that any bank that goes further
to deal with the Rivers State Government in honouring its loan application does
so in its own risk, as Rivers people do not support such financial transactions
and no legal authority backs it.
The Rivers State
House of Assembly remains nonfunctional and illegal in view of the events
surrounding its operations, and therefore, does not give any of its members any
right to approve any loan for the Executive arm.
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