The Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, has rejected the insinuations that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is an Islamic party.
Speaking yesterday, during an interactive session with students of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (UOE), in Port Harcourt, he said the APC was not an Islamic party and has no intention to Islamise Nigeria, if it wins the 2015 presidential election.
Amaechi, also, exonerated APC presidential aspirant, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari from the rumour, saying the APC is a party for progressives, who mean well for Nigerians and the overall development of Nigeria.
“APC is not an Islamic party. This is so because, when General Muhammadu Buhari was Nigeria’s Head of State as a young man, he did not Islamise Nigeria, and to do that, he needs the endorsement of the National Assembly to debate over the issue. Buhari cannot Islamise Nigeria. Don’t be perturbed by what our detractors are saying.
“I am an ardent Catholic Christian and I converse with God a lot. It is not true that APC will Islamise Nigeria. The National Chairman of APC, Mr. John Odigie-Oyegun is a Christian. Bola Tinubu’s wife is also a Christian, Buhari’s cook is a Christian from Igboland, his driver is also a Christian.
“As a father to all of those Christians, Buhari gives Sunday as a free day to his domestic staff to go to Church and worship God. So, no one can believe what our detractors are saying about Buhari and APC.”
The governor also expressed disappointment over the stagnated political economy of Rivers State, which he alleged, was the handiwork of the Presidency and detractors of his government.
“The political economy of Rivers State has been stagnated by the Presidency and their detractors. They are all thieves, who don’t mean well for our state. They caused mayhem in the last administration. We assumed office and chased them away.
“Now, as my tenure draws to an end, I can see, they have brought them back. You and I have a responsibility to stop them from repeating what they did before. We will not allow them again, to steal our funds. Imagine, the missing $20 billion that was stolen. We expect that our President would have sacked all those involved in the saga. But, he only threatened to sack the former CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who was only doing his legitimate duty at that time. Nigerians must have a rethink,” Amaechi said.
On the Rivers governorship race and the 2015 general elections, Governor Amaechi said the plan by the PDP to bring in another Ikwerre governor in 2015 was, “unreasonable, not feasible and will fail.”
He explained: “I am an Ikwerre man, who has ruled for eight years and I am surprised to hear that the PDP is jostling to bring another Ikwerre governor in 2015.
The man who PDP wants to bring as their gubernatorial candidate is not a Christian. That man only believes that votes can be bought with money.”
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