Some youths under the aegis of Kengema Unity Forum and Egberi Papa Foundation matched round the streets of Port Harcourt on Friday in protest against the intention of the Rivers State government to bar the PDP in the state from using the Adokiye Amesimaka Stadium for their presidential rally. Leader of the protesters, Tubo Tamuno Dick told newsmen that they were demanding for access to the stadium.
Dick claimed that the stadium was built by a PDP government in the state and not the APC.
He said that PDP members were asking for equal treatment in using the facility for the PDP Mega Rally next week.
The protesters, however, called for police protection ahead of the rally.
“It is not possible. We must use that stadium. After all, it was built with our common wealth and by a PDP government. It is not Amaechi’s personal property.
“Amaechi has used it and there was no problem. Buhari has used it and there was no problem; now we want to use it and they are telling us that work is on-going.
“Let us say this now, if anything happens when we are using that stadium, it is Amaechi. If you hear that a part of the stadium has collapsed, it is Amaechi.
“So, we are calling on the police to give us security because when Amaechi used it they gave him security.
“How will a Northerner come here and use our property and you say our son, President Goodluck Jonathan and Nyesom Wike will not use it. It is a Niger-Delta property”.
The PDP Presidential rally is billed to transverse the South-South region next week with a visit to Rivers State on the 28th of January.
There has been a battling controversy over the usage of the 40,000 seater Adokiye Amesimaka stadium with Governor Amaechi stressing that the state government was still carrying out construction work on it.
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