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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has affirmed that the alleged plan to kidnap Governor Chibuike Amaechi is real.
According to OSUN DEFENDERS, a statement issued on Sunday by the APC's Interim National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, said the plot, which was exposed by a group, Rivers Peoples Forum, RPF, should be taken seriously, against the background of a similar occurrence in the past and the outcry by Mr Amaechi that his life was in danger.
"Anyone who thinks this alarm by the Rivers Peoples Forum is outlandish should remember what happened to then Anambra State Governor Chris Ngige, who was abducted and rough handled in 2003 in what is undoubtedly the most egregious violation of democratic institutions in our country’s history".
"The instigators and perpetrators of the crisis in Rivers are keenly aware that they are running out of options. Their impeachment plan has been foiled by the takeover of the legislative functions of the Rivers State House of Assembly’s functions by the the National Assembly, while their plan to declare a state of emergency in the state has also failed, against the lack of support for such act by the National Assembly".
"This is the reason for this last desperate act by an increasingly-desperate Presidency, which may not exclude a final solution. We are therefore, for the umpteenth time, calling on civil society and human rights organizations, opinion leaders and indeed all lovers of democracy and believers in constitutional rule to intervene to stop the runaway culture of impunity in Rivers State".
"As we have said before, the crisis in Rivers is being deliberately orchestrated to test the waters ahead of the 2015 elections, with the belief that if the perpetrators get away with the massive impunity in the state, it can then be extended to other states before 2015 to ensure that the polls will be everything but free, fair and transparent, and also to satisfy the yearnings of a president who is obsessed with winning re-election", the APC added.