Tony Okocha, the Chief of Staff to Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amaechi, has assured that the governor would complete his tenure despite alleged plot by six members of the State House of Assembly to unseat him.
Okocha said for as long as Rivers people remained behind the governor, resolute in defending the mandate they gave him, it would be impossible to oust him, even as he said that the All Progressives Congress, APC, would win the 2015 governorship election.
Okocha stated this when he played host to the APC Youth League, Rivers State Chapter and Igbo Professionals in Rivers State who paid him a solidarity visit in his office in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Wednesday.
Okocha vowed that what happened in the north-eastern state would not be repeated in Rivers State as the majority of lawmakers who are loyal to both the APC and Amaechi would not give in to the pressure like their Adamawa counterparts.
He said the efforts by the Abuja-based politicians and the six lawmakers would come to nothing since the majority of the members of the Assembly had resolved to swim and sink with the mandate of the Rivers State people embodied in the governor.
“I wish to assure all APC faithful and the entire good people of Rivers State that they should continue with their normal business activities as no effort by some unscrupulous undemocratic elements will succeed in thwarting or tampering with the mandate they freely gave to Governor Amaechi as I am very convinced that we are capable and ready to defend the mandate no matter the odds,” Okocha said.
Okocha told the two groups that with the feats recorded by Amaechi in the areas of education, health, agriculture, infrastructure and good governance, the APC was a sure bet to retain the governorship seat of the state, not minding the resolve of the PDP bigwigs to resort to rigging and intimidation.
Earlier, the leader of the APC Youth League, Hart Lawson, told the Chief of State that his group paid the visit to assure Amaechi of their unflinching loyalty.
“We are here on behalf of the good people of Rivers State to assure our performing Governor of our unflinching support and readiness at any time to defend and protect the mandate we freely gave to Governor Amaechi,” he said.
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