A Call On The Conscience: Rivers Deputy Governor, Rejoins PDP From APC

The Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Tele Ikuru on Sunday, announced his defection from APC to PDP. Ikuru, who has worked with Governor Rotimi Amaechi for about eight years, may be received by President Goodluck Jonathan at a PDP stakeholders’ meeting in Port Harcourt on today.
In an address entitled “A Call on the Conscience of The People of Rivers State,” in which he announced his resignation from APC earlier on Sunday, described the APC as a party of “rebels, insurgents and anarchists clothed in the robes of pretence and deceit.”

The statement read in part,

“Recalled   that in December 2013, out of extreme loyalty to my boss and friend, I joined the APC, along with other disillusioned Rivers people. Ever since, as the true nature and motive of the APC are unveiled, I have continued to twist and turn in extreme mental and emotional agony. 

“The more I struggle to belong, the more the Rivers man in me rejects APC. After carefully studying, interacting and analysing the leadership of the party, I have come to the sad conclusion that the APC is a party of rebels, insurgents and anarchists, clothed in the robes of pretence and deceit. 

“APC is a party founded on deception and it thrives on unholy propaganda and falsehood. I, therefore, on behalf of my teeming supporters and my humble self, denounce APC and we all jointly and severally resign our membership of APC.”

He called on the people of Rivers State   to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday and the PDP governorship candidate, Nyesom Wike, on April 11. He added;

“My dear people of Rivers State, we of this generation will not in good conscience expect forgiveness and compassion from our forebears, posterity and the spirit of our unborn generations if it is recorded in the annals of history that, after 48 years of Rivers people supporting leaders from all parts of this country with our votes and resources, we were the same that  hounded down the very first ever President from this region, granted us by providence. I wash my hands off this treachery.”

Ikuru was said to have been in a battle of supremacy with the state APC Chairman, Davies Ikanya, who is from the same Andoni Local Government Area with him.