C’River APC threatens ‘anarchy’ over alleged harassment of members

• PDP dismisses claim as baseless
• Rivers gov alleges destabilisation plot
FOR alleged harassment of its bigwigs, the Cross State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has threatened to make the state ungovernable for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government.

APC’s National Vice Chairman, South-South, Prince Hilliard Eta, who gave the warning, said his party may be forced to retaliate what he termed “unceasing acts of violent attacks” meted out to top party stalwarts in the state.

In a swift reaction, the state PDP chairman, John Okon, described Eta’s allegation as “baseless and unfounded.”

He said neither Ayade nor the PDP was responsible for the alleged violence said to being experienced by members of the leading opposition party in the state.

“I want to put it on record that the governor and the PDP have nothing to do with the attacks Hilliard is talking about. I know my governor. He is not a violent man and you know me that I am not a violent person and I am not leading people who are violent. Please, the APC should search themselves and leave the PDP out of it,” he added.

Eta, however, pointed out that APC was capable of making the state tough for Governor Ben Ayade and his party if the “violent attack” against members of the party continues.

Briefing reporters yesterday in Calabar in company of a former commissioner representing the state on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC), Paul Adah and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Venatius Ikem, Eta said the situation was unacceptable.

Meanwhile, Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has accused some politicians of deliberately instigating crisis in the state to create room for the “evil declaration of state of emergency.”

He also decried the deployment of solders to some communities in the state without his knowledge as chief security officer.

Wike made the disclosures yesterday when he led the state Commissioner of Police, Musa Kimo and top police officers on a fact-finding mission to Yeghe community in Gokana Local Council of the state.