Tele Ikuru, Rivers State Deputy Gov. Denounces APC Makes Allegiance with PDP

A crack has appeared in the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State as Deputy Governor Tele Ikuru on Sunday announced his defection to the Peoples Democratic Party.
Ikuru, who has worked with Governor Rotimi Amaechi for about eight years, may be received by President Goodluck Jonathan at a PDP stakeholders’ meeting in Port Harcourt.

The deputy governor, in a statement on Sunday, described the APC as a party of “rebels, insurgents and anarchists clothed in the robes of pretence and deceit.”
According to Ikuru statement titled,
“A call on the conscience of the people of Rivers State, that since he joined the APC with other disillusioned people of the state, he had been in emotional agony.
He added that the more he struggled to belong to the APC, the more the Rivers man in him rejected the party.
The statement read in part, “Recalled that in December 2013, out of extreme loyalty to my boss and friend, I joined the APC, along with other disillusioned Rivers people. Ever since, as the true nature and motive of the APC are unveiled, I have continued to twist and turn in extreme mental and emotional agony.
“The more I struggle to belong, the more the Rivers man in me rejects APC. After carefully studying, interacting and analysing the leadership of the party, I have come to the sad conclusion that the APC is a party of rebels, insurgents and anarchists, clothed in the robes of pretence and deceit.
“APC is a party founded on deception and it thrives on unholy propaganda and falsehood.
‘‘I, therefore, on behalf of my teeming supporters and my humble self, denounce APC and we all jointly and severally (sic) resign our membership of APC.”
He called on the people of Rivers State to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday and the PDP governorship candidate, Nyesom Wike, on April 11.
The deputy governor advised that the people of the state should not be seen to be working against Jonathan,who like them, is a son of the Niger Delta.
Ikuru added, “My dear people of Rivers State, we of this generation will not in good conscience expect forgiveness and compassion from our forebears, posterity and the spirit of our unborn generations if it is recorded in the annals of history that, after 48 years of Rivers people supporting leaders from all parts of this country with our votes and resources, we were the same that hounded down the very first ever President from this region, granted us by providence. I wash my hands off this treachery.”
Ikuru was said to have been in a battle of supremacy with the state APC Chairman, Davies Ikanya, who is from the same Andoni Local Government Area with him.

3/23/2015