The planned visit by President Muhammadu Buhari to Rivers State is generating ripples between various groups as Senator Magnus Abe has implored Governor Nyesom Wike and all dissenting voices to be grateful to the President, instead of casting aspersions over the anticipated visit.
Abe, a Senator representing Rivers South East, expressed the sentiment, yesterday, even as Governor Wike maintained that the key reason of security informing the said visit was misplaced. Abe said: “Rivers State has been in the news for the wrong reasons of recent.
The governor should have been the happiest person to hear that the President is coming to see those people who lost loved ones and empathize with them. “It would be an opportunity for the governor to find a way to work with the President to ensure that we have better security but because of the undertone of violence in Rivers State, I think that is why he finds the visit uncomfortable at this time.
Both political figures also differed on the state of development of the state with each crediting his respective party to have delivered more dividends of democracy to the people.
Wike claimed that for close to three years, Rivers State had not benefitted from the APC-led federal government. He lamented that the Ogoni clean-up had remained in the realm of rhetoric, Bodo-Bonny Road about to be abandoned and East-West Road, the Port Harcourt International Airport and other federal projects left unattended to.
Abe on his part said: “The APC government has done more for Rivers State than the PDP government. The Bodo-Bonny road is on-going. Work has started and the East-West road is also on-going. The president is committed to the Ogoni clean-up and he is working. This is the take-off point.” The trust fund account is being opened and you have to finish all this process before you can accelerate.
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