Completion of projects: We did not really applaud Wike – APC

Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has debunked media reports that it lauded the decision of the state governor, Barr. Nyesom Wike, to complete projects initiated by the immediate past administration of former Governor, Rotimi Amaechi.

The party, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Thursday by its publicity secretary, Chris Finebone, clarified that the content of the report did not actually represent the presentation of the party at a forum on the 100 days in office, which was organized by the Federated Correspondents Chapel of the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).

It reiterated that what the APC Spokesman said at the symposium was that the party sees nothing wrong in a sitting government completing projects which were uncompleted by the previous administration as government is a continuum.

The statement reads in part, “In the case of Rivers State, there was nothing exceptional the governor was doing that required being ‘lauded’ especially when the governor is not acknowledging the input of the predecessor in conceptualizing, initiating and carrying out those projects to the extent that they were inherited by the new government.

“The position of the APC is that the sitting government accepting to complete those projects confirms that the government of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi that started them deserves greater commendation for its vision and efforts from the present Rivers State Government.

“It amounts to the height of mischief and dishonesty on the part of the present government to describe such projects as abandoned by the previous government in its paranoid mission to take away from the achievements of the Amaechi administration.”

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