A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has appealed to residents of Rivers State not to make the same mistake they made in the 2015 election.
Eze made the plea in a statement on Tuesday, it was gathered. He said the challenges facing the state are the direct outcome of the decision taken during the 2015 governorship election.
He accused the people of Rivers State of turning a blind eye to the passionate appeal of then Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi who called on the people to reject Nyesom Wike at the polls.
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Eze said Amaechi had warned that the choice before Rivers people in 2015 was between light and darkness as he presented then APC governorship candidate, Dakuku Peterside, as a visionary leader with the competence, character and capacity to sustain developmental strides recorded between 2007 and 2015.
“Unfortunately, through the influence of powerful political forces at the centre and circumstances that remain part of our political history, Rivers State ended up on a path that has brought over eleven years of stagnation, division, insecurity, institutional decline and the dismantling of many of the visionary programmes that once made Rivers State a model of development in Nigeria,” he said.
Speaking on the 2027 governorship election, Eze condemned in no uncertain terms what he described as Wike’s incessant bragging about determining who becomes the next Governor of Rivers State.
“Rivers State does not belong to any individual, no matter his political influence. Political godfatherism era ends. Any imposition of a governor on the people of Rivers is not only undemocratic but a direct assault on the sovereignty of the electorate, whoever attempts it. “Rivers people must reject such a devilish agenda with every democratic means available to them,” he declared.