APC urges 13,000 teachers owed by Wike to reject PDP December 10

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has urged the 13,000 teachers employed by the administration of former Governor Chibuike Amaechi and their families to reject the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the December 10 rerun election .

In a statement issued in Port Harcourt Tuesday and signed by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Mr. Chris Finebone, the APC claimed that the teachers and their families were being subjected to untold hardship by the state government and that they should use their voting power to tell the truth to the governor by rejecting every PDP candidates in the rerun election rescheduled by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

“Governor Nyesom Wike needs to be reminded that standing on a podium to take the oath of office and allegiance is not a mere empty ritual but a solemn event that must remind the office holder of his responsibilities to the people under his charge.

“Indeed, it marks the acceptance to serve the people fairly and justly, taking full responsibility of the assets and liabilities of the preceding administration as governance is a continuum or going concern,” it said.

The party noted with disappointment that since May 29, 2015, when Governor Wike was sworn into office, he had allegedly transferred what it described as “his self-declared war” on his predecessor to the innocent 13,200 teachers employed by former Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi to help restore the educational system in the State.

“Most significantly is that the governor has vowed not to pay the senior secondary teachers their outstanding 3 months salaries brought forward from the last administration. The logic for this heartless denial of the right of these teachers by the present governor remains curious to all sane minds and the teachers themselves. The unfortunate teachers have become hapless collateral damage in the one-man war of attrition in which the governor is the lone adversary and the target Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi,” the APC said.

The statement said that the APC believed that governments all over the world strove to operate above certain moral baseline, alleging that the opposite was the case with the Wike administration which it said was running like “a Cosa Nostra where the operating ethics and norms depend on how the Boss feels on the day.”