Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, has accused the Governor of the state, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of
plotting to scuttle the prosecution of the leader of the State House of
Assembly, Hon Chidi Lloyd.
This assertion was made by the Chairman of PDP in
the state, Felix Obuah in a press statement issued on his behalf by his media
adviser, Jerry Needam.
Lloyd is likely to be charged to court soon over
alleged attempted murder of his colleague, Hon. Michael Chindah in Port
Harcourt.
Obuah said the accusation was based on a ‘reliable’
information he received that Governor Amaechi had directed the state Attorney
General to lay ambush against the prosecution of Lloyd in Port Harcourt.
According to Obuah, Amaechi who had never cared to
visit the injured lawmaker, Hon. Michael Chindah in the hospital or offered any
assistance or condolence to him or his family, was hell bent on frustrating the
prosecution of Hon Lloyd through the State Attorney General and Commissioner
for Justice Mr Worgu Boms.
He described it as an evidence that the Governor was
comfortable with the life-threatening harm that Hon Lloyd allegedly caused Hon
Chindah.
The statement said: “If Governor Amaechi desires peace, he would have gone to
see the badly battered lawmaker and show concern for the sake of humanity but
instead of that, he is plotting that the Attorney General of the State should
enter a nolle prosequi to terminate the criminal proceedings to be commenced
against Hon Lloyd.
“Such an action will not only be morally wrong but
amounts to an abuse of office and miscarriage of justice. It will heighten
bitterness and provoke the sympathisers and relatives of Hon Chindah who may be
forced to believe that the actions of Hon Lloyd was not an accident but planned
and masterminded by the Governor and Lloyd”.
The Chairman said that “irrespective of what has
happened, it is inhuman and absolutely wrong for the Governor to be blocking
the due process of justice in such a highly sensitive case where a lawmaker
would have murdered another on the floor of the House as was shown on
television”.
He added that “in as much as nobody is perfect, the
actions we take when others are deliberately injured will help to heal wounds
and soothe pains.”
Obuah cautioned that if the Attorney General went
ahead to issue a nolle prosequi to terminate the trial of Hon Lloyd, the
situation might heighten tension and further threaten the prevailing fragile
peace in the state, stressing that nobody could tell the extent that the
consequences may go.
He however, urged the people of the state and
members of the PDP to continue to pray for the survival and recovery of Chinda
who is undergoing medical treatment in London following the wounds he received
when Chidi Lloyd allegedly attacked him with a mace in the floor of the Rivers
State House of Assembly.
Culled from Daily Post
