Rivers State Governor and Director-General of Buhari Presidential Campaign, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to warn his supporters and members of the PDP against attacking APC supporters in Rivers State and across the country.
The governor made this appeal following Tuesday’s attack on supporters of the All Progressives Congress by suspected Peoples Democratic Party hoodlums while on their way to attend the Buhari Presidential Campaign flag-off in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Amaechi handed this plea after leading the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, and others members on a sympathy visit to the victims of the attack, at the Kelsey Harrison Hospital in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
The governor said the President, apart from calling his men to order, should also condemn the attack on the APC members by the PDP hoodlums.
He said: “Imagine that the President goes to campaign in Katsina or in Kano and his convoy is attacked.
“Imagine that. We will condemn it. In the same manner, we expect that the President and the Peoples Democratic Party should condemn this violence that has been visited on us by their members and we expect that they should be able to control their members.
“The President can’t be promising us free, fair and violence-free elections and here we have already experienced violence. What is he expecting us to do?”
Amaechi further called on President Jonathan as the Commander-in-Chief to provide the needed security for all Nigerians, irrespective of which party they belong.
He said: “I have continued to say that if the state is not able to provide security for individuals, individuals will begin to provide security for themselves and I pray that people don’t begin to provide security for themselves.
“I pray that all of us should come out and support the state to provide security and the state must be ready to provide that security.”
According to Amaechi, the PDP by these attacks on APC supporters had shown that it was not ready to ensure peaceful or violence-free polls.
“The fact that people are being attacked here and there is an indication that the PDP is not ready for a free, fair and violence-free elections”, he stated.
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