The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has criticized latest feedback made by Lere Olayinka, Senior Particular Adviser on Public Communication and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and Tony Okocha, a factional chairman of the APC in Rivers State, over their remarks towards former governor of the state, Chief Rufus Ada George.
In an announcement signed by the Publicity Secretary of the Emeka Beke-led APC within the state, Darlington Nwauju, the get together described the April 10, 2025, remarks as a deliberate try to protect FCT Minister Nyesom Wike from what it known as “the pointless political crises introduced upon Rivers State owing to greed, useless glory and outright narcissism”.
Nwauju famous that the feedback by Olayinka and Okocha have been disrespectful and failed to deal with the substantial points earlier raised by Chief Ada George.
He added that their habits displays a rising disregard for conventional establishments and a worrying development of disrespect in the direction of elder statesmen.
The APC particularly challenged a declare made by Olayinka, who cited the 2008 report of the Justice Kayode Eso-led Rivers State Fact and Reconciliation Fee, alleging that Ada George sponsored the Bush Boys and incited violence in 2001.
The get together, nevertheless, acknowledged categorically that no a part of the 571-page report indicted Chief Ada George, whose tenure as governor (January 1992 – November 1993) predates the fee’s jurisdiction.
Additional criticizing Okocha’s alignment with Wike, the APC accused the previous of ignoring a troubling legacy below Wike’s management.
It listed a number of incidents, together with killings in Omoku and different communities, bombings at marketing campaign venues, destruction of opponents’ properties, arbitrary arrests, assaults on media homes, and the usage of Government Orders to stifle dissent.
The get together mentioned Okocha’s latest posture contradicts his previous actions, claiming he beforehand labored towards APC pursuits for private profit.
In defending Ada George’s legacy, the APC referenced a number of growth tasks initiated throughout his administration, saying, “Allow us to agree that Okocha will not be conscious of any recorded achievement of the Ada George administration, we perceive his present state of affairs as a person below the hypnotic affect of a fellow man.
“We are going to ignore his mischief by itemizing just a few of the tasks undertaken/executed by the Ada George administration – Kpean-Andoni-Bonny highway (now christened Unity Street), Airport-NTA-Ada George Street, Ada George-Mile 3 highway, development of Iriebe trailer park, Okrika ring highway, state-of-the-art library at RSU, Yenagoa/Kolo/Nembe highway (now in Bayelsa State), Elekahia-Trans Amadi hyperlink highway, Elekahia-Pabod Brewery by-pass highway, Emohua-Degema-Abonnema highway, Rivers State Home in Abuja, and others.”
It added, “We invite Rivers individuals and Nigerians to now decide the info towards the congenitally faulty imaginations of Lere Olayinka and Tony Okocha.
“We have now talked about a few of the achievements of the Ada George administration below the area of twenty-two months which Okocha’s impaired evaluation won’t ever acknowledge.
“Irrespective of how briskly deceits, half-truths and outright lies journey, the reality should meet up with it.”
Concluding, the APC tendered an apology to the previous governor, “We render an unreserved apology on behalf of Rivers APC to our former Governor and elder statesman, H.E Chief Rufus Ada George for the depraved lies revealed towards him and the failed try by hirelings to distort historical past.”
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