PDP warns against continued threat to members’ lives

The Peoples Democratic Party, Rivers State chapter, has expressed anger over alleged continued threat to the lives of its members across the state.
This is coming on the heels of the assassination of one of its members, Hon. Sotonye Bobmanuel, a serving councilor in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of the state about 9.45pm on Sunday.
Happening a few days after the kidnap of three stalwarts of the party, who are still being held captive, the PDP in a statement by Jerry Needam, the Special Adviser on Media to the state Chairman, Bro. Felix Obuah, said this is nothing short of a calculated plot by political opponents to provoke the party and ignite crisis in the state.
The statement said it is now crystal clear why these agents of disharmony and destruction were hell-bent on seeing the former Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph Mbu, transferred out of the state.
According to the PDP, which said it based its position on empirical evidence, there is no denying the fact that the agents of the state Governor, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the All Progressives Congress and the Save Rivers Movement are responsible for the unfortunate acts of lawlessness in the state.
The PDP regrets that even in the face of all this, Governor Amaechi remains unperturbed and is rather busy celebrating.
The statement said: “We condemn these inhuman and lawless acts in their entirety and call for an immediate stop of the senseless insurgency and also appeal to the security agencies to wake up to these challenges posed by these undesirable elements and enemies of the state.
“This is the only way to guarantee peace and harmonious co-existence in the State since no one person or group has a monopoly of violence.”