Return of PDP documentary terrorism Wike-style
Chris Finebone
On the 30th of July, 2015 the Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives
Congress, APC, revealed in a press release that it had uncovered an
insidious plot by the PDP in which it commissioned a team made up of
persons within and outside the state to ‘initiate, formulate and
contrive false damaging reports bordering on alleged corrupt practices
of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and circulate same to individuals
and institutions within Nigeria and abroad with a view to damaging the
incorruptible character and rising profile of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi in order to blackmail and put pressure on President Buhari not
to appoint the former governor into his government.’
Our release went further to reveal that the project which had the
blessing of the acting national chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche
Secondus, was being driven by the likes of Rivers State Commissioner
for Housing, Barr. Emma Okah, the Spokesman of the Rivers State
Governor, Opunabo Inko-Tariah amongst others and would take the form
of sponsored publications such as advertorials, columns, editorials
and OpEd articles in major international, national and local print
media; sponsored personality discussion programmes on electronic media
by public commentators; it will also include sponsored special
documentaries for television and radio through independent groups and
organisations.
We stated in that release that, ‘The APC also uncovered that those
whom the cooked up report will be sent to include the US Embassy, UK
High Commission, EU Commission, several international organisations
such as Transparency International amongst others. The forged report
will also be sent to local and foreign media houses such as the BBC
[Hausa Service], Dutch Radio, VOA [Hausa Service] amongst others’ for
repeated publication and airing.
The press release concluded by putting ‘Nigerians on notice to
completely ignore such reports whenever they surface in the media in
the name of fake and contrived individuals or groups.’
Quite unsurprisingly to the APC, the PDP did not clearly refute the
charge but only made some feeble denial.
However, exactly 4 days after on the 3rd of August, 2015 the PDP plan
rolled with a highly mendacious publication in major national
newspapers particularly the Sun and Thisday by one Livingstone
Nwechie, a known PDP member who disguised as Director, Media/Publicity
of a nebulous group by the name Integrity Group.
Mr. Wechie and his sponsors [PDP] apparently forgot that Wechie was a
member of the Media and Publicity Committee of the Rivers PDP
Governorship Campaign Organisation as published in The Nation
Newspaper of Saturday, January 24, 2015.
As part of the strategic plan to destroy the former governor of Rivers
State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the publication dished out
totally fabricated tissues of lies that belong to the very depth of
hell aimed at deceiving and hoodwinking the gullible.
Last Friday, the next major item on the PDP media terrorism scheme
premiered when it released a highly noxious, obnoxious and vexatious
documentary, presenting the earlier publication by the Integrity Group
in electronic format. The PDP, Nyesom Wike and their hatchet
Television Station, AIT, have since been airing the evil documentary
at least twice a day.
To the APC, the documentary is all a repetition of the same
documentary terrorism the PDP deployed against General Muhammadu
Buhari during the campaigns for the 2015 general elections. It is not
surprising that the medium for airing the documentary is the same AIT
that angered decent Nigerians with documentaries that disparaged the
present President of Nigeria and his family members just to ensure
Nigerians did not vote for him.
The present documentary is simply aimed at driving a wedge between the
President and the former governor by blackmailing President Buhari
from having a place in his government for Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi.
The APC believes that just as the blackmail against General Muhammadu
Buhari was ignored by Nigerians and they massively voted for him, so
President Buhari [having himself been a victim of PDP and AIT
documentary terrorism] will discountenance the dirt the PDP and AIT
are trying so hard to pour on a honest, sincere but courageous
gentleman, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, CON and accord him his
right of place in the new Nigeria he staked everything, including his
life, to achieve.
Chris Finebone, is the River State APC Publicity Secretary