PDP Takes On Amaechi Over Rising
Unemployment Rate
The Rivers State Chapter of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is impressed that Gov. Amaechi has for once
admitted the high rate of unemployment of Rivers youths under his leadership in
the past six years.
The PDP was reacting to Amaechi’s open
confession while formally registering as a member of the All Progressives
Congress, APC in Ubima yesterday that over 80% of youths decamping with him to
the Party are unemployed.
The Party in a statement by the
Special Adviser, Media to the State Chairman, Jerry Needam however regrets that
Gov. Amaechi is realizing his failure in this regard after he has completely
run the state economy aground, a situation that is directly responsible for the
growing youth unemployment in the state.
The PDP also pinpoints other areas of
the state economy that have suffered various setbacks and some, in total
comatose because of Gov. Amaechi’s bad leadership and mismanagement of State
resources to include agriculture, water resources, power and rural development
etc.
The statement further states that it’s
not the PDP that is the issue, but Amaechi, who the Party gave mandate to
oversee the affairs of the people, noting that if still given another
opportunity to govern the State under the visionless APC, Amaechi would fail.
“The problem is that Amaechi feels he
knows when he does not, and most unfortunately does not listen to wise counsel
which is the greatest undoing to any recalcitrant leader. If we may ever ask,
who is to blame for the unemployment of over 80% of the youths in Ubima as he
noted while formally registering as APC member yesterday, Monday, February 10,
2014”. The PDP queried.
The Party insists Amaechi’s belated
realization was the main reason why the PDP is happier with his exit so that
the enormous resources of the state could be applied to make life better and
enjoyable to the people, likening Amaechi to a leopard which never changes its
skin whether in PDP or APC or any other Party.
The PDP also faulted Amaechi’s attempt to blame
President Goodluck Jonathan to the rising unemployment in Rivers State, calling
it loss of sense of value, political miscalculation and malicious, and positing
that it beholves on a State Chief executive worth his onions to provide jobs
for his teeming youths and not the President.
The PDP challenged Amaechi to point to one
industry he has revamped in 6 years that can generate employment for Rivers
youths, before blaming the President.
“We are happy he (Amaechi) is finally
confirming all our reservations about his failed leadership and in no distant
time, he will have cause to apologize to our people for holding them down for
that long when he would have come back to his senses or repented of his
overzealousness that has resulted to a blindfold.
Today, teachers are owed 7 months, TIMARIV owed
7 months, projects abandoned for lack of money, unequipped schools, besides
Rivers people that were sent to overseas for studies through the Rivers State
Sustainable Development Agency, RSSDA, who are about being sent home for
failure by Amaechi to pay their school fees for 2yrs today.
“Will Amaechi still blame someone else for this
glaring gross misconduct and mismanagement”, PDP asks.
Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s defection to
the APC is a blessing to the PDP, the Party said.
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