Dr. Chidi Lloyd, the chairman of Emohua local government area of Rivers State, claims that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is not devoted to a genuine reconciliation of the warring members of the party.
He also accused Senator Iyorchia Ayu, the PDP national chairman, of not conducting himself properly after the party presidential primary, saying his utterances provoked a lot of people.
Lloyd, who is the former leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, spoke yesterday when he appeared on LEADERSHIP Television’s live morning show, ‘Inside Nigeria’, which was monitored in Port Harcourt.
“You will also recall that on a sister station of yours, Reuben Abati made some uncanny statements about the governor. All these necessitated his reaction. The governor has not been bothered; we have put the presidential primaries behind us. To buttress that point, for nearly two weeks now, it has been one commissioning or the other. So that is the unique thing about Governor Wike.
“We have since put the presidential primaries behind us and we are now focused on governance. What we are doing here is about the governance of the people of Rivers State. We are not deterred by what those people are doing in Abuja.”
The LGA chairman said for those who are members of the PDP fold in Rivers State, are not aware that there is any problem in the party. “All we see is that my governor has been on the pages of national dailies going into two months now. He has been consistently on the front page of nearly all the national dailies; not because of statements traced to him but because of what naysayer think about the governor of Rivers State,” he stated.
“The governor of Rivers State stood tall when it mattered most to ensure that the party remains afloat. So, he will not abdicate it for anybody. He will remain in the party and ensure that the party gets its electoral values.
“However, I want to advise those who hang around the presidential candidate, including the National Chairman, who also has not conducted himself properly since after the primaries knowing that nerves have been frayed during and after the primaries, had gone to visit another presidential aspirant, declaring him and hero of democracy. These are all things that are enough to provoke people,” he said.
