Rivers APC lambasts Amaechi’s critics over funding allegation

All Progressives Congress (APC) Rivers State chapter, has taken a swipe at the critics of Governor Chibuike Amaechi, who accused him of funding his party at the national level.
The state Chairman of the party, Dr. Davis Ikanya, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt yesterday, said the state chapter did not have such money to fund the party at the national level.

He said: “This is a rumour without foundation, and a figment of the imagination of those who invented it. It is based on mere suspicion because of the key role that Governor Amaechi has been playing in repositioning APC to salvage Nigeria from the grip of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“As rightly stated by Amaechi yesterday during the APC Port Harcourt flag-off rally, APC is a very big party to be funded from the purse of the Rivers State Government…The truth is that, no single state or individual is funding APC; the party is funded by all its committed members.”
Ikanya said since the PDP-led Federal Government ceded some oil well to the neighbouring Abia and Bayelsa states, Rivers State had been having financial problems.
“That Rivers State has witnessed unprecedented development in the past seven years is not because of having too much money, rather, because of the ingenuity of the Amaechi-led administration. We, therefore, plead with the idle minds, spreading this unholy rumour of his funding APC with Rivers State money to find something better to do with their time,” Ikanya stated.
Meanwhile, Rivers APC has congratulated Governor Amaechi for putting smiles on the faces of civil servants in the state by paying their December salary before Christmas.
The party said by this, he had shamed detractors, who thought he would not pay due to the economic emasculation of the state.