Chairman of the Rivers All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya has justified the statement made by the Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi in 2011 to the effect that APC is a party of night soil men, adding that they are out to clean up the socio-economic and security mess which the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had thrown Nigeria into.
In a statement in Port Harcourt the APC Chairman described as disgraceful those who cannot stand the rigours of intellectual political debate over Governor Amaechi’s 2011 statement to the effect that ‘those who carry brooms are night soil men and juju priests.’
“Like the true African that he is, Amaechi was speaking in parables but suffice it to say that he did not in any way contradict himself by later dumping the torn umbrella of the doomed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the clean-sweeping broom of the APC.”
Dr. Ikanya insisted that Amaechi was 100 percent right in his 2011 statement and had to take his leave from the PDP when the mess by the PDP-controlled Federal Government under the watch of President Goodluck Jonathan became an unmistakable threat to the very survival of the country, thus leaving all patriots with no other option than to join the league of proverbial night soil men.
“The mess by the PDP-led Government of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as manifested in monumental corruption, suffocating insecurity and strangulating economic hardship is such that every Nigerian patriot needs to carry brooms to flush out this evil party and clean up the country for the sake of present and future generations.
“There is no gainsaying that going by the present sorry state of Nigeria, the country desperately needs good night soil men to clean up PDP’s faeces. Indeed, it is time for all those who truly love Nigeria to bring the brooms out and get down to work with APC’s broom revolution as we seek to bring about change after forming the next government in 2015.”
He berated the faceless Association of Concerned Indigenes of Rivers State and other faceless groups being promoted by the Presidency and Rivers State PDP Leader, Nyesom Wike, “for wasting billions of taxpayers’ money on a worthless advertorial in some National and Port Harcourt based papers in its doomed propaganda campaign that can only make Governor Amaechi and APC stronger as they work to salvage Nigeria from the evil grip of PDP.” [myad]
