PDP and APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress
(APC) in Rivers State have raised concern over the increasing wave of
kidnapping and assassination in the state.
In separate statements issued in Port Harcourt yesterday, the parties
also condemned the abduction of Wazobia Cool Fm Presenter and on-air
personality, Mr. Anthony Akatakpo, popularly known as Akas Baba, last
Thursday and called for his unconditional and immediate release.
The state Chairman of PDP, Chief Felix Obuah, in the statement signed
by his Media Adviser, Mr. Jerry Needam, said the party was worried about
the rising cases of crime in the state and appealed to the police to
take necessary steps to check the trend.
Obuah described Akas Baba as a grand provider of the essentials of
happiness by lightening the general mood of the society and said he
deserved encouragement and appreciation and not ill-treatment.
He appealed to the abductors of the comedian to release
him
unconditionally and save the already traumatised family further agony.
Obuah also appealed to the youths in the state to desist from criminal
acts that were capable of destroying the image and the economic
prospects of the State.
The APC, in its own statement, described as condemnable and
unacceptable, the recent upsurge in assassination and kidnapping in the
State.
The statement issued by the interim State Chairman of APC, Dr. Davies
Ikanya, said, “This upsurge started with assassination of an APC
Councillor and kidnapping of three PDP chieftains. With the kidnapping
of popular on-air personality with Wazobia FM, Port Harcourt, Mr.
Anthony Akatakpo, famously called Akas Baba, after his home was attacked
in the early hours of Thursday, March 13, 2014, the situation appears
to be getting out of hand and is becoming too much for us to condone.”
Ikanya said the party was aware of efforts of the State Governor,
Chibuike Amaechi, to check crime in the state and said the rise
coincided with the crisis in the PDP that led to the defection of
Amaechi to APC and attempts by the PDP to destabilise the state.
He said, “We strongly condemn this upsurge in crime and wish to urge
the new Commissioner of Police, CP Tunde Ogunsakin, to see this as a
challenge that must be met. We suspect that this new wave of insecurity
is being sponsored by the promoters of the redeployed controversial CP
Joseph Mbu in order to justify their failed campaign for the elongation
of his evil stay in Rivers on the argument that during his stay we were
not witnessing any assassination or kidnapping. We have strong faith in
the capability of CP Ogunsakin to rise to the occasion and restore
state-wide security if his antecedents are anything to go by.
“Finally, we demand the immediate release of Akas Baba because this man
has done much to ease tension among our people under the strangulating
economic woes arising from the poor management of our economy.
“This request for the immediate release of Akas Baba becomes imperative
to enable him to be treated for the injury he sustained in the course
of this unfortunate kidnapping.
We learnt that he was beaten and shot in the leg by the kidnappers in
the presence of his children and wife, despite cooperating with his
attackers.
He was thereafter whisked away in his Mitsubishi Endeavor SUV with
Registration Number LSD 871 CM. This very violent act still leaves Akas
Baba’s family in great trauma.”
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