National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, Chief John Oyegun
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday in Abuja pledged to address all issues of human rights abuses allegedly perpetrated by the Rivers government.
The APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, made the pledge when all 23 local government chairmen in Rivers paid a courtesy visit to the party’s national secretariat.
The chairmen were at the secretariat to report purported cases of human rights violations, unpaid salaries and monthly allocations to the state and intimidation to their persons by Gov. Nyesom Wike.
Odigie-Oyegun assured the grassroots leaders that APC followed due process, adding that the party would not “allow the blood of the innocent to be shed
for political reasons.
“I want to give you the assurance that yes, things have changed in this nation, and those who are still testing our resolve will discover sooner than later that they are absolutely on the wrong track.
“The fact that we are a party of law, a party of order, a party of due process does not mean we will allow impunity to continue.
“We will not allow the blood of innocent to be shed on the platform of politics or for political reasons.
“If the PDP in Rivers does not recognise that change has in fact come to this nation, then they will be doing so at their own peril because there certainly will be consequences.
“We cannot allow our members, innocent citizens to be witch-hunted, to be slain, to be abused the way they are used to and the way it has been happening,” he said.
He said that the friction in the state could be attributed to the fact that APC won all local government seats in PDP-controlled Rivers.
According to him, the party is aware of the “high price” paid by executives of its state chapter to what they had accomplished.
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Source:: PM Newspaper
