Prominent
leaders of Rivers State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have
paid a visit to Hon Michael Chinda. The wounded lawmaker is receiving
treatment in Bupa Cromwell Hospital in London. It would be recalled that
a pro-Amaechi lawmaker and majority leader of Rivers State of Assembly,
Chidi Lloyd severally smashed a wooden mace on his head and jaws on
July 9th 2013, as a group of five lawmakers tried unsuccessfully to
impeach the speaker of the house.
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Among
those who visited the injured legislator were Minister of State for
Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, former Deputy Speaker of House of
Representatives, Austin Opara, President of Nigeria Bar Association,
Chief Okey Wali (SAN), and former Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)
National Treasurer, Mr. Kenneth Kobani. Others are former Transport
Minister, Dr Abiye Sekibo, Rivers State PDP chairman, Chief Felix Obua
and a former commissioner in the state, Mr. Bonny Iyaye.
Speaking
after visiting the injured lawmaker, Wike appealed to Rivers people,
especially the constituency where Chinda comes from to remain calm,
assuring that justice would take its course.
Also
in his speech, the PDP chairman expressed surprise that despite the
devastating attack, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi was yet to ask
after the wounded lawmaker.
According
to the text of the press release regarding the visit, issued from
London, "The leaders were grateful to God for the survival of Hon.
Michael Chinda despite the vicious knocks he received from the
mace-wielding Majority Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Mr.
Chidi Lloyd.
"They
condemned the brutal physical assault suffered by Hon. Chinda, saying
that such violence must not be witnessed again in the state.
"Former
Minister of Transport, Dr Abiye Sekibo while condemning the brutal
injury inflicted on Hon. Chinda, said all well meaning Nigerians must
rise to condemn such pre-meditated act of violence in the interest of
the nation’s political growth.
"He
said: "All of us must condemn what happened. It doesn’t matter on which
side of the political divide that we find ourselves. Governors who see
this kind of barbarism and fail to condemn it, but choose to turn it to
political drama will not be forgiven by history".
"Former
ACN National Treasurer, Mr Kenneth Kobani said that whoever supports
the acts of pre-meditated violence perpetrated against the Rivers State
lawmaker needs his conscience examined. 'Our common duty is to ensure
that we do not support this kind of evil. It is shocking that even as we
speak, those who carried out this evil act are still going about
justifying the evil. That tells you the deplorable state that our state
has fallen to.'
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Source: The Sun
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