Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has said that the Peoples Democratic Party could not even smell government house come 2015 as 90% of the voting public in the state belong to the All Progressives Congress party.
Amaechi who spoke through his chief of staff, Tony Okocha was responding to remarks made by President Jonathan over the weekend in Minna where he said that the PDP would reclaim the states (Kano, Rivers, Sokoto, Kwara and Adamawa) where the governors defected.
“For anybody to declare that the PDP will take over Rivers in 2015 is mere hallucination. It (PDP winning Rivers in 2015) is not possible. I cannot talk about any other state, but I am sure that APC is in full control of Rivers State.
“You can see that Rivers is an APC state and they can’t take it. More than 90 per cent of the voting population in Rivers State is APC. Apart from being APC members, they are also adherents of APC. So, PDP cannot take the state away from APC,” the governor said.
In a related development, the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako has said that there is no way President Jonathan can win another free and fair election in the country as the party had failed in key governance indices.
He said “Our advice to him and his party, is to look inwards and see what is going wrong around him. He is junketing and visiting traditional rulers in places where nothing is happening, he has forgot to visit places where people are being killed daily, where innocent people are being slaughtered.
“He has a responsibility to the people of this country not to contest for the Presidency in 2015 but to provide leadership for Nigerians between now and 2015.
“He has to secure the lives and property of Nigerians between now and then to ensure free and fair elections and ensure confidence in the democracy. These are the challenges before him; this is much more than his desperation to return to power in 2015.”