Six Commissioners In Governor Amaechi's Cabinet To Defect To PDP

Following the defection of Gov Rotimi Amechi's deputy, Tele Ikuru to PDP on Sunday, fear was said to have gripped the APC in Rivers as speculations were rife on Monday that six commissioners in Amaechi’s cabinetwere set to defect to the PDP on or before Friday.

Ikuru, had boasted that his supporters would soon join him in the PDP. According to Punch, a source said he could only vouch for five commissioners to remain with Amaechi -  Information, Agriculture, Works and two other commissioners.

“Yes, the deputy governor has defected and you will agree with me that he (Ikuru) has supporters who will definitely want to go with him. We are suspecting them already and very soon, they will show themselves. But one thing is clear, the Amaechi they are betraying has always stood by them. Amaechi does not betray anybody and anything he tells you today, check in the next 20 years, he will still maintain his stand,” the source said.

A source at the state House of Assembly said almost all the legislators now believed in stomach infrastructure.

“The PDP may have infiltrated them within the past 12 months and you must know that those who would leave by this time believe in stomach infrastructure while those with integrity will continue to stay with Amaechi.”

Meanwhile, the State Commissioner for Works, Mr. Victor Giadom said through his aide, that described the claim that some commissioners were about to defect to the PDP as mere propaganda.

Earlier, Chairman of the PDP in the state, Mr. Felix Obuah, said Amaechi would be left with only five commissioners.

“Amaechi has only five commissioners and more than two-thirds of the members of the state House of Assembly have joined PDP. They are already talking with me. Today, we are celebrating one of our own (Ikuru) and his teeming supporters who have seen reasons in what we are fighting for,” he said.