In a statement, the party observed that the governor had not spared “our highly revered elder statesmen and national heroes dead or alive in his verbal attacks.”
Substantiating “this unbecoming attitude of a state chief executive,” the PDP in the statement signed by the Special Adviser on Media to the state party Chairman, Jerry Needam, drew attention to the “many uncomplimentary and hyperbolic statements of Governor Amaechi” while speaking at the sixth Port Harcourt Book Festival at the Hotel Presidential Port Harcourt on October 23, 2013 in which Amaechi allegedly cast aspersions on some elder statesmen and political leaders in the state including the Supervising Minister for Education, Nyesom Wike and the former deputy speaker, House of Representatives, and former acting national deputy Chairman of PDP, Prince Chibudom Nwuche.
The party wondered why the governor would describe politicians whether still active or retired as incompetent and failed professionals when he studied Literature in English and claimed to have read law while serving as the speaker of the state House of Assembly and yet clung to political power even when it was clear he could not perform.
“The party feels unease over this persistent disrespectful attitude of the governor which does not portray him as a real democrat and statesman he claims to be,” describing such action as insolent and childish of a chief executive of a state.
He urged the governor to respect other leaders and elders of the nation, wondering why “someone, who wants to be adored with an unwavering loyalty will not accord same to others, who undoubtedly deserve the same and even more.”
ThePdP stated that it had tolerated enough of such unpatriotic and embarrassing actions of Governor Amaechi and his allies in the state and would no longer fold its hands and allow opportunists to continue to be rude to the people and leaders who had made their marks in the sand of times.
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