Dr Ikanya was erstwhile State
Chairman of PPA and the Rivers State Steering Committee Chairman of PDM
before his appointment as the Interim Rivers State Chairman of APC.
The carnival-like ceremony held at
the State Secretariat of APC situated along Forces Avenue, old GRA, Port
Harcourt, marked the formal end and collapsing of PPA and Rivers PDM
structures into the APC.
Hon. Ugo Chinnah, an astute politician
and a grass-root mobiliser, erstwhile Deputy Chairman and Director of
Logistics of PPA and State Chairman, Membership Revalidation of PDM, led
the 23 Local Government Chairmen of PDM and PPA and other key members
of the State Excos of the two organistaions to the ceremony. The
delegation included Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, erstwhile Director of
Media and Publicity of PPA and PDM; Comrade VisionPaul Thankgod Aluchi,
Deputy Director of Youths; Chief Williams Ikhile, Director of
Mobilisation; Donatus Ordu, Director of Finance; Comrade Chapp Jumbo,
Director Of Research, Chief Uchenna Okokoba, Director of Non Indigenes
and Chinedu Grant-Amadi, the Deputy Woman Leader.
Conspicuously absent from this
historical event were Dr. (Mrs.) Edith Wele, the Women Leader, due to
ill-health, and Barr. Osima Ginah, former Secretary General of PPA and
PDM, who is now a leading light in GDI, the political machinery of Chief
Nyesom Wike, the Supervising Minister of Education.
Hon. Chinnah, who wept profusely
during the event, stated in his remarks: “I am crying not because of
anything but the fact that Prince Tonye Princewill ought to be the one
to lead this visit knowing how close he is with Gov Amaechi but instead
he is found to be associating with PDP that has demonstrated its disdain
against Rivers State and her people and now working
with people who no longer enjoy the
confidence of the people of Rivers State.” Hon. Chinnah congratulated
Dr. Ikanya for taking the mantle of leadership to spearhead the
revolution that will change the course of Rivers State politics forever.
He concluded his remarks by condemning the evil that CP joseph Mbu has
constituted himself since arriving the State and asked for his immediate
redeployment as a matter of urgency.
Dr. Ikanya in his address thanked
Hon. Chinnah and all the stakeholders and members of PDM and PPA for
taking the bold step of identifying with the political aspirations of
Rivers State and her people at this period that PDP politicians are
playing politics inimical to the development of our dear State. He
assured the decampees that they would be treated as joint founders of
APC in Rivers State. “None of you should be intimidated by anybody or
group as APC is big enough to accommodate anybody or group". He
described today as historical and the end of opposition in Rivers State
knowing the vibrancy the PPA and PDM will bring into APC in Rivers
State.
Chief Ikanya expressed displeasure
over Prince Tonye Princewill working with PDP politicians that have
sworn to make Rivers State ungovernable and promised “to work with Chief
Eze, a trusted ally of the Prince, and Hon. Chinna to ensure that
Prince Tonye Princewill joins us as soon as possible as PDP is already
dead in Rivers State unless he wants to end his blossom political career
in the country with a visionless group”
Dr Ikanya further stated that Gov
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi did not inveigle or forced him into joining APC
or neither did he cajole Chief Eze or any of us into APC as we are of
age to know what is good for our people contrary to some insinuations in
some quarters that Gov Amaechi forced us into APC but we were
influenced by the wickedness, visionless and undemocratic plots of the
current PDP Leadership in the country and decided to join APC to correct
the evil that PDP portends for our country.
Princewill Political Associates
(PPA) was a very vibrant political force in Rivers State founded by the
political associates of one of the most colourful politicians from the
Niger Delta region, Prince Tonye Princewill, and headed by Dr Davies.
Ikanya from inception. Princewill, commonly addressed by his supporters
as the Prince of Niger Delta Politics, is a scion of the Amanyanabo
Kalabari Kingdom in Rivers State.
PPA is the brain and backbone of PDM
in the Niger Delta region. In recognition of the contribution and
relevance of the group, Gov. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi appointed Prince
Tonye Princewill as the youngest member of the Rivers State Economic and
Advisory Committee headed by Prof Nimi Briggs with other great minds
from Rivers State as members. Governor Amaechi also influenced his
membership of the Presidential Technical Committee on Niger Delta. In
addition, Governor Amaechi against all odds and to the chagrin of his
kitchen cabinet nominated two members of PPA (Dr. Ibiamu Davies Ikanya
as Commissioner in charge of Special Duties and Barr. Osima Ginah as
Commissioner of Urban Development) into his cabinet and Chief Williams
Igweh, the deputy governorship candidate to Prince Tonye Princewill
during the 2007 polls, as Senior Adviser on Political Parties
Inter-relationship during his first tenure.
With this development coupled with the formal death of PDP in Rivers State, APC is now posed to rule Rivers State till 2019!
Signed
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
SSA Media and Public Affairs to the Interim State Chairman, APC Rivers State
19-01-14
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