» APC Lists 24 Sins Committed By Jonathan, Wike And PDP «

The All Progressives Congress in Rivers state has listed
24 sins committed by former Nigerian president, Goodluck
Jonathan, the incumbent governor of the state, Nyesom
Wike and their political party, Peoples Democratic Party
against the people of the state.
APC claims that the duo of Jonathan and Wike have
committed gross sins against Rivers State without any
justification and should pay for these sins during the 19th
March, 2016 rerun election.
In a statement issued on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, the
state capital by the state chairman of APC, Dr. Davies
Ibiamu Ikanya, the 24 sins corruption, lack of political will
etc.
Here are the sins listed by APC:
1. President Jonathan failed to muster the courage and
political will in a PDP-controlled National Assembly to see
to the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in the
over six years of his administration to demonstrate his
hatred for the Niger Delta region knowing that communities
in Rivers State will benefit from the bill.
2 The East/West Road, especially Eleme-Onne axis in
Rivers State, was not only abandoned but was a nightmare
to travellers and commuters.
3 Bodo-Bonny Federal Road was completely abandoned
just because it is situated in Rivers State.
4. Refusal to refund to the State Government over 90
billion naira used in the dualisation of Ikwerre-Owerri Road
approved by late President Yar’Adua and other Federal
Roads in the State executed by the State to ease the
sufferings of the people of Rivers State.
5. Wickedly stopped Train 7 at NLNG Bonny and the loss
of jobs to our people and revenue to Government.
6 Non-implementation of UNEP Report on the clean-up of
Ogoni land despite all the pleas by our people and the
International Community – just to punish the Ogonis and
Rivers State irrespective of their overwhelming support for
him during the 2011 elections.
7 Lack of any visible Federal Government project in Rivers
State throughout his over six years as President of Nigeria.
Instructively, of all the states Dr Jonathan has visited in
the course of his re-election campaign, it was only in
Rivers that he could not name a single development
project he initiated, not to talk of executing.
8. Ceding of oil wells belonging to Rivers to Bayelsa and
Abia states to ensure that the revenue accruing to the
State was reduced to nothing.
9. Abandoned construction of the Port Harcourt
International Airport after completing other airports started
at the same time with it. The airport has thus become an
eyesore and the worst airport in the entire world. Pictures
of the current state of the Airport attached explain the level
of hatred Dr Jonathan has for Rivers State and her people.
10. Turning the Port Harcourt axis of Enugu-Port Harcourt
Express Road into a death trap. The pictures attached of
the bad state of the road explain everything.
11. Posting and encouraging the excesses of the tyrannical
Police Commissioner Joseph Mbu during his inglorious
days in the State.
12. Supporting the impunity of daily killing, maiming of
members of Rivers APC by the Police under the watch of
Dan Barure then Commissioner of Police of the State
13. Supporting every imaginable act of impunity in the
State, including the plot by five State Assembly members
to impeach the Speaker in a House of 31 members.
14. Seizing and grounding the planes of the State for no
just cause.
15. Harassing and intimidating the then Governor of Rivers
State (Rt. Hon. Amaechi) for no just cause and even
supporting the splitting of the Governors Forum into two
just to ensure that Governor Amaechi, who was duly
elected by his colleagues, does not have an easy reign as
the Chairman of the Forum.
16. Refusal to allow the then Governor of the state to
construct the Federal Road that leads to the Kalabari
Kingdom just to ensure that during the rainy season the
Kalabaris will not have a road to their place.
17..Refusal to refund the State the money used to
construct the smooth, beautiful dual carriageway from
Omerelu to Port Harcourt – particularly up to the Airport
Junction from Owerri in Imo State, which the Federal
Government abandoned just because Rivers State people
ply that road.
18. Refusal to refund the money used by Rivers State to
construct the Ahoada/Elele Alimini Federal Road and the
interchange (Flyover) at Obiri Ikwerre.
19. Refusal to attend to the poor state of the Onne – Port
Harcourt component of the East/West Road. This is the
road that services the Port Harcourt Refinery from where
petroleum products are supplied to the South East and
parts of the South South. That is the road that leads to the
Onne Free Zone and to Okrika, the home Local Government
of Dame Patience Jonathan, Nigeria’s former First Lady.
20. Turning a blind eye while his party continues to kill,
bomb and disrupt APC rallies.
21. Against the spirit of equity, unity, justice and fair play,
Dr Jonathan and his wife, Damee patience Jonathan
imposed Chief Nyesome Wike a cancellous fellow from the
Ikwerre tribe as PDP candidate and Governor of Rivers
State, knowing very well that the former Governor, Rt. Hon.
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, was also of Ikwerre extraction
and that with Chief Wike as Governor that the Ikwerre tribe
will governed Rivers State for 16 years to the detriment of
other tribes and sections of the State. This shows that Dr
Jonathan and his son and unjust party do not wish Rivers
State any good.
22. Former President Jonathan released all the N25 Billion
that accrued from the principle of derivation from the five
Soku Oil Wells that rightly belong to Rivers State kept in
reserve for Rivers State and Bayelsa State were all paid to
Bayelsa State his home State to prove his hatred for
Rivers State
23. As a President, Dr Jonathan continued to under fund the
NDDC to ensure that Rivers State and in extension the
Niger Delta region is not developed, till the time he left
office, over N700B owed by the Federal Government was
not paid to the Niger Delta Development Commission
(NDDC)
24. Refused to empower and fund the Ministry of Niger
Delta Affairs initiated by the Yar-Adua’s administration.
The then Minister of Niger Delta once stated that the
N41.7B due to the Ministry was not paid until Dr Jonathan
left office to ensure that 90 percent of the projects initiated
by the Ministry were not executed by the Ministry in Rivers
State and other Niger Delta States
Ikanya said: “These, amongst other wicked acts against
Rivers State for reasons only to be explained by Dr
Jonathan are why no PDP should be voted for this
Saturday’s poll.
He then said: “For the record, Dr Jonathan is from Bayelsa,
a sister State to Rivers. He is married to Dame Patience
Jonathan, who is from Rivers State and having schooled in
UNIPORT and lectured in the State before joining politics;
one would have expected him to be a key factor in the
development of Rivers State after the State gave him the
highest number of votes in the 2011 presidential election
though not shockingly, he was the greatest undoing of his
party in the 2015 general election.”