The Rivers state deputy governor, Tele Ikuru, asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to fight and give back the state from the All Progressives Party (APC).
Mr. Ikuru made the call in Port Harcourt on Monday, March 23, after his defection from the APC, Premium Times informs.
“It is necessary for the sake of your fathers, for the sake of your mothers, for the sake of your brothers and sisters and for the sake of your children, every Rivers man must stand up to fight this evil among us,” he said. “If it demands your blood, so be it.”
The deputy governor also told the PDP supporters how governor Rotimi Amaechi misguided him into leaving the party in 2013.
According to him, Mr. Amaechi made him to believe that joining the APC was good for him.
“I did not know that it was all about the ambition of an individual. “In our darkness, we thought that we were in the right place. What is happening in Rivers State today will haunt all of us if we allow it to go unchallenged.”
The embattled deputy governor is said to have started moving his personal belongings from his Old GRA official residence on Monday night.
According to the source, Mr. Ikuru is moving to his personal house located in Eagle Island, one of the water locked areas of Port Harcourt city.
“We saw people moving things out of the residence in the night and it is likely he is moving back to his personal house,” the source said.
Last Sunday’s defection of the Rivers state deputy governor, Tele Ikuru, from the APC to the PDP is believed to be not the end of the APC’ party perturbations.
Ikuru, who was officially received into the state PDP on Monday in Port Harcourt, promised to bring along all his supporters.
The deputy governor’s defection is also believed to have set the stage for political readjustments in the state, even as no fewer than 18 members of the 24-man state executive council are set to dump the APC.
Besides, some members of the APC have already started commenting on Ikuru’s defection.
