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| Mr. Chibudum Nwuche |
by: Onyebuchi Ezigbo
Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Mr. Chibudum Nwuche said that the move
to ensure that President Goodluck Jonathan is re- elected as President in the
2015 election has the tacit support of the entire leaders of the South-South
zone of the country.
Nwuche who spoke against the background of the brewing
political crisis that has engulfed Rivers State, said Governor Rotimi Amaechi
is the architect of his woos, having wittingly worked to undermine the
political interest of the people of the region.
The former Deputy
Speaker who hails from Rivers
State, said in an interview with THISDAY yesterday in Abuja that the issue of
second term for President Jonathan has become a matter of serious interest for
the people of the region who saw it as an opportunity that must never be
allowed to slip from their hands.
“The President’s second term ambition has evoked strong
sentiments from most stakeholders in the
South-South to the extent that anyone who is working against it would be taken
as going against the region’s interest,” he said.
Nwuche said if the performance of Jonathan is to be used as
the yardstick, there is no doubt that Jonathan has been impressive when
compared to his predecessors in office.
On the political crisis Rivers state, Nwuche said the issues
has nothing to do with anyone outside the state, adding that It is entirely the
problem of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers state. He accused the state governor of fueling the
crisis by not carrying the key stakeholders along in the governance of the
state and trying to undermine political interest of the people.
“In politics people have interest they want to protect and
politicians have reasons for wanting to support a candidate. However after his re-election, the governor
thought he is clever and began a journey of his own and people who helped him
were left out of governance.
However these people being key stakeholders needed to have
been consulted but Ameachi ignored them.
“I think Ameachi’s scheming is to retire every politician of
note from the state from being relevant at the national level. It has nothing to do with the First Lady or
witch haunting by FG as is awash in the media but with purely an internal
crisis which the governor himself instigated.
“ Amaechi is making a mistake because he is going against
the collective wish of the South-South.
In the South-South, it is the desire of the majority of the people that
Jonathan should run for a second term, and any one who stands against that is
likely to be opposed by the people,” he said.
Nwuche condemned the outcry that came in the wake of the
suspension of Governor Amaechi by PDPD, saying such hue and cry are not coming
from the PPD family but ironically from the opposition.
He queried what interest does the opposition parties of the
All Progressives Congress ( APC) have in
a matter that is purely an internal affairs of the PDP.
“The ACN as a party has its internal problems, but PDP has
never interfered in that. What is worrisome is why ACN is making a mole hill
out of an ordinary disciplinary action meted out on an party member. More so it
is a mere suspension and not expulsion and there are rooms for dialogue and
reconciliation to resolve the matter,” he added.
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