Chidi Lloyd, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has asked the Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Magnus Abe, to leave the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, out of his personal views as he is an adult with personal opinions.
Lloyd’s admonition comes hours after the Senator warned members of the party in the state especially supporters of the minister against abusing president Mohammadu Buhari.
Lloyd who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, accused the president of abandoning party members in the state.
However, Abe had a different opinion,
of which he said that party faithful in the state cannot accuse the president over an issue that they deliberately shot themselves on the leg.
Abe referred to the blame game as most unfortunate, stressing that “The habit of blaming everyone else for our woes must stop immediately. We had a needless and senseless power tussle in the party even when everyone agreed that the Minister was the leader, yet that was Senator Abe’s fault, (because Senator Abe has a gubernatorial ambition as if there is any member of a political party in Nigeria without an ambition).
Furthermore, he stressed that “APC members in Rivers State went to Court for a minor issue that could have been resolved internally in ten minutes; they were accused of being sponsored by Governor Wike.
“The APC leadership went to physically attack the Courts and openly disobeyed court orders and the courts responded by axing the candidates for being products of that disobedience. The judges were accused of being PDP and working for Wike.
“Now, you have gone into an election for which you are clearly ill-prepared, and yet the President gave you everything.
“Rivers APC had NDDC, Railway, NPA, Shippers Council; Ministry of Transportation, Police, Army, Air Force, DSS and yet, you could not win because the INEC REC is PDP. INEC Chairman is PDP, haba!
But Chidi Lloyd in his reaction accused Abe of working with Governor Nyesom Wike to destabilise the party.
According to Lloyd: “My attention has been drawn to an orchestrated mischief titled: “Stop Abusing President Buhari, Abe Cautions Amaechi” by Senator Magnus Abe aimed at pushing my personal views as though they were that of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. Ordinarily, and by my nature, I wouldn’t have bothered with a reply to the diatribes but for the damage he intends to do, I want to state categorically that my views are my personal thoughts and should not be credited to any other person other than me.
“As a stakeholder in the politics of Rivers State, I feel sad that a collaboration of Senator Magnus Abe and Governor Wike and their accomplices in the Rivers State Judiciary denied us so much in power structure of Rivers State. Whereas, it is an incontrovertible fact that Magnus Abe was collecting huge sums of money and a landcrussier jeep, including payment of legal fees, from Governor Wike to pull the rug off the feet of the APC, it is even more annoying that Magnus Abe did everything under the sun to stop President Buhari from being re-elected. It is on record that when we were working round the clock to ensure we re-elected President Buhari, Magnus Abe addressed a team of 23 Coordinators across the 23 LGAs in his camp to go to their LGAs and instruct their supporters to vote for Atiku instead President Buhari and they did.
“I want to state here that no reasonable member of the APC in Rivers State feels happy over what is happening in Rivers State of which Magnus Abe is part of. Magnus Abe and Wike sat down with Obo Effanga, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Rivers State and drew a list of Returning Officers and Collation Officers. Magnus Abe nominated Dr. Peter Medee, a member of the PDP as the Returning Officer of Emohua LGA, my LGA to work in favour of Wike.
“Magnus Abe should take his sanctimonious demeanour to the dogs. As the days go by, more and more Rivers people and indeed Nigerians are getting to know that Abe is a man without honour. Today, the same Abe who joined forces with anti-Buhari Senators led by Senator Saraki is acting like he believes in President Buhari than the rest of us. Where was Abe when only 10 APC Senator stood out for President on the floor of the Senate?
When President Buhari was away for medical treatment, the same Abe was in nocturnal meetings planning how to force President Buhari out of office as if he was God who gives health.
“Every true Nigerian will agree with me that President Buhari’s emergence and subsequent re-election is the best thing that has ever happened to Nigeria. I am a full supporter of President Buhari and I am doing that without regrets”
