SHOCKER! Pro Amaechi Lawmaker Pledges Loyalty To Wike

Almost a week after Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, his camp has suffered its first set-back.
One of the 27 lawmakers of the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to Governor Amaechi has pledged loyalty to his (Amaechi) foe, Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike.

The Lawmaker, representing Andoni Local Government Area, Ikunyi Awaji-Igbani who is also the Chief Whip of the Assembly made the pledge during the Grassroots Development Initiative’s, GDI, ward executives inauguration and thanksgiving held in Ogu-Bolo in Rivers State.

This was even as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, had vowed that it would not allow the flag off of Governor Amaechi’s party, the APC anywhere in the state.
Also, the PDP Chairman, Felix Obuah, said more House of Assembly members had consulted him, expressing their apology and demanding to be readmitted.
He made this known shortly after Ikunyi

announced his exit from Governor Amaechi’s camp.

“Eight of them have come asking that we should admit them back, that they have been suffering”, he said.

He accused Governor Amaechi of recruiting thugs to destroy PDP signposts, urging GDI supporters to resist any attempt by government agents to destroy PDP property, adding that the party leadership would support them.

Meanwhile, the PDP declared that it would ensure that APC short-lived its existence in the state.

In their separate speeches at the event, Wike, the National Deputy Chairman of PDP, Uche Secondus, Senator George Sekibo, former transport Minister, Abiye Sekibo, factional Assembly Speaker, Evans Bipi, and many others, said the governor would not use Rivers money to fund the APC.

Meanwhile, Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Leyii Kwanee in a media briefing in Port Harcourt said Awaji moved to the opponent’s camp because he was under pressure from his political benefactors in the state.

Culled from Daily Post