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MAGNUS Ngei Abe, a senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Rivers South East Senatorial District re-run election wants people to see him as a peacemaker rather than a trouble maker.
Speaking at a rally at Bera in Gokana Local Government Area of the state, Abe said that he had an antecedent of making peace among the Ogoni people.
He said: “I have worked for peace and may God forgive me because I have promised people I will never brag about peace, because it is only God who gives peace. But since these people want to talk about my character, I will talk about my character. When Kenneth Kobani was commissioner for Finance, in Bodo, his hometown, over 50 people died. They were put into wells. Kobani was detained by SSS for over two weeks for his complicity in those acts. I was the one who went there to sympathize with the people. I brought peace.
“When people were dying in Sogho, Kaani, Kpong and women could not go to the farms in Nyokhana, I was the one who went there to sympathize with the people. I also brought peace. Is that the life of somebody who will kill Ogoni people? This PDP people are liars and our people know that. They cannot determine the direction of the Ogoni people because we know them. They are doing whatever they can to smear my name because they know my own is better than a lot of their own. Lee Maeba, Kenneth Kobani, Dum Dekor and Olaka Nwogu are my children. I am their father. When they finish misbehaving, they will come to me and I will forgive them.”
In his own speech, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, minister of Transportation and former governor of Rivers State, thanked the Ogoni people for their support and massive turnout for the ward rally stating, ‘’it shows you people are serious.”
He urged the people to ignore those who had worked against the UNEP report implementation.
“Like Magnus said, for six years, we were begging President Jonathan to please deal with the issue of the UNEP report. All those people who are now shouting UNEP report, UNEP report, is because they have heard that the President has released $1 billion dollars and typical of PDP, they want to steal the money. This $1 billion dollars, they will not share the money. President Buhari is serious about anti-corruption to share the money. This $1 billion dollars is naked wire. If you chop it, you will die. So, I’m not afraid of that. This $1 billion dollars that is going to go to you for UNEP purposes will be discharged according to law. I am sure, they are regretting why they did not bring out the money to share earlier. They thought they will win so that they can share it this time. Now, they didn’t win and President Buhari will not allow the sharing. It will be used to clean up Ogoni.”
Speaking further, the minister accused Olaka Nwogu, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers South East Senatorial district, of diverting funds meant for the construction of roads in Ogoniland.
“Olaka Nwogu was given contract to do road from Eleme to Oyigbo passing through Tai for almost N17 billion. You know that we are now in charge of NDDC. So, we have the records. If he denies it, I will bring out the record. It’s from the Ministry of Niger Delta. And that money is gone. Olaka, I don’t know how he got his hotel. But, I know he has hotel. So, if you vote for Olaka, there will be more hotels and there will be no road. If you don’t want them to continue to build more hotels, please, vote APC”, he said.
Amaechi assured the people of adequate security during the rerun polls and appealed to them to come out en masse on March 19, to cast their votes for the APC.
The minister predicted that the APC would sweep the polls in the senatorial district.
“Rivers South East Senatorial District is in our pocket. On Sunday, we shall be eating in Magnus house as a senator,” he said.
— Mar 16, 2016 @ 16:10 GMT
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