Amaechi’s planned defection to APC no threat to PDP -Obuah

       
               
 
 Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Rivers State Chapter, Felix Obuah,   has  said   that  Governor Chibuike  Rotimi  Amaechi’s  planned defection to All Progressives Congress(APC),  does not pose any threat to the party in 2015 general elections.
Instead,  he  disclosed that  his exit from the party  is a blessing  in disguise . Obuah, who spoke in Port Harcourt   yesterday, through his Special Adviser on Media, Mr.  Jerry Needam,  accused  Amaechi  of being  a clog in the wheel of progress of the party.
Obuah was reacting to Amaechi’s claim that PDP was jittery because of his planned  defection to APC.
The chairman explained  that , rather than regretting  Governor  Amaechi’s planned exit,  his last minute decision to quit  PDP, having been suspended and stripped of his powers, as  the state party leaders, is the best thing to  happen to  the party.
“This  is good for any group  that is desirous of true democracy and freedom of the people.  For the entire period  that Governor Chibuike held sway,  as the leader of the PDP in the state, it was  one controversy  or the  other, as though, we are cursed,  with no appreciable impact on the people, despite the huge resources  accruing  to the state every month.”
While wishing Amaechi well in  APC, Obuah  challenged that   it was  high time  he demonstrated his claim of  having magic wand, boasting  that he would   be defeated,  even in his  ward, come  2015.
“It’s a pity  that Amaechi  has chosen to play the proverbial  man, who erroneously  thought his detractors were  dead  or,  had become his friends,  and went  ahead to kill his  herbalist, only to realize, though,  too late, that he had shot himself in the leg,  as he  was subsequently trapped by his enemies,” the PDP chairman  said.
He therefore  called on Rivers people to be vigilante, to ensure that money belonging to the  state  was  not used to fund APC.
“We  are watching  to see what becomes of  Amaechi  and the APC, as we go for elections in the state, to determine who  actually owns the land”,  he  boasted.
Obuah  also urged the people  to  join him to celebrated the new air of freedom in Rivers PDP, which he claimed was  made possible by  Amaechi’s   planned  defection to  APC,  and  assured  them of  better days ahead.