The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lauded Acting President Yemi Osinbajo for yesterday’s visit to the state for the commissioning of some landmark projects by the State Governor, Chief Barr. Nyesom Wike, “despite the retrogressive efforts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to dissuade him from honouring the invitation.”

A statement from the office of the State chairman, Bro Felix Obuah, and signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jerry Needam, said that “by ignoring the call and gossips of the anti-democratic APC elements, Prof. Osinbajo has once more proved that he is the Acting President of Nigeria and not that of the APC and that national interest should be placed over and above personal, parochial and selfish interests.”

The statement further noted that “the Acting President being a better educated, more exposed, and of superior class than the charlatans in APC could not have been swayed from honouring Gov Wike’s invitation having been in the state earlier, and amazed by what the Wike administration has been able to achieve in only two years in office, gave him the name ‘Mr Project’.”

Rivers PDP noted with regret that “rather than invest all the millions of naira into more meaningful ventures or at worse, empower their few surviving ‘living dead’ members, the visionless APC felt the best they could do was to spend the millions of naira on media hype and publicity to misinform a more reasonable Acting President.”

“This has once more brought to the fore the fact that the intimidated political acolytes and stooges of Rotimi Amaechi are still living in the past when people were hoodwinked to believe outright lies dressed and packaged as real and which characterised the eight wasted years of the Amaechi administration as the State Governor. Things have long changed, and seeing they say, is believing, which is the watch word of the Wike administration,” the statement added.