Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for fast-tracking the clean-up of Ogoniland in accordance with the Report and recommendations of the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, describing him as a better son of the Niger-Delta than former President, Goodluck Jonathan.
Rivers APC, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Friday by the Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, stressed that with the clean-up of Ogoniland, President Buhari, though not from the region, has proved that he is a better son of Rivers State and the Niger Delta than immediate past president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
According to the statement, “The news of President Buhari not only directed the cleaning up of Ogoni land but also the fast-tracking of the process came to us as a great relief particularly considering the fact that former President Jonathan in demonstration of his hatred and disdain for Rivers State and her people ensured that this exercise did not see the light of the day throughout his regime”.
The party insisted that “President Buhari has demonstrated by this act that he is a better son of Rivers State and the long-suffering Niger Delta than Dr. Jonathan and Chief Wike who, though from the region, instead teamed up to ensurethat the region was under-developed and even ceded our oil wells to other states while also ensuring that no Federal Government presence was felt in Rivers State throughout”.
Rivers APC further commended and congratulated President Buhari, “for this brave and patriotic step in cleaning up Ogoni land,” assuring him and the National APC Leadership that it would do everything constitutionally possible to get the impostor out of the Rivers State Government House.
The party maintained that the action has again proven that former Rivers Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, “was very right in mobilising us and the entire Nigerians to vote for President Buhari during the March 28th, 2015 Presidential polls as President Buhari has proved that he is truly a God-Gift to Nigeria at this particular time to right the wrongs, injustice and wickedness Rivers State and Niger-Delta suffered under the regime of Dr Jonathan Goodluck”.
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