Wanted Youth Leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, Princewill Osaroejiji has accused the State Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu of being responsible for his predicament.

Osaroejiji was declared wanted by the State Governor, Nyesom Wike for attacking members of the State COVID-19 Taskforce on Saturday, May 9, 2020 at Prodest Hotel, Alode, Eleme LGA. The latter also ordered the demolition of the hotel alongside Edemete Hotel in Onne, also in Eleme LGA.

But the wanted youth leader, today during a live radio interview monitored in Port Harcourt, attributed his ordeal in the hands of the State Government to his kinsman, Kamalu, who he said was allegedly angry with him for refusing to make him chairman of Eleme LGA.

“He (Finance Commissioner, Isaac Kamalu) wants to fight me. He has vowed not to forgive me. He was close to Governor, that’s why he misinformed Governor. That’s why I want Governor to call all the Chiefs, all the leaders of PDP in Eleme.”

“Some persons that have met me that I should go and make them local government chairman, and I said I am not the one that will select who will be local government chairman, are involved in this thing, and I will tell them one by one. This thing was a framed, framed, framed story!!”

Kristina Reports was unable to get the reaction of the State Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu, to these claims, as calls and messages to his mobile lines did not connect as at the time of this report.

He denied ever assaulting any taskforce member as was circulated on social media, saying everything was stage managed just to tarnish his image before the Governor, disclosing that the said injured taskforce members were part of the team that shared the State Government’s palliatives to people in Eleme LGA on Monday, May 11, 2020, stressing that nobody was injured as there was no attack on the taskforce.

“I was called upon by the manager of the hotel (demolished Prodest Hotel), he said there are some men that came there, and they said he should give them some money. I know that place has been shut down for long.”

“I went there, when I got there it was people I nominated, the person I nominated…Nkolowa Saka, he is my personal CSO, I nominated him for the State Covid-19. They were just four persons.

“How will I lead thugs to beat up people I nominated? This is not what Governor asked you people to do. Why will you go and ask for money? Is the hotel in operation? Even if it is in operation, you have to stop it.”

“Nobody beat up anybody. Most of the people that were lying down in the hospital…Governor brought food for Eleme people on Sunday, that’s the same day they demolished the hotel, those people (people lying down in the hospital) were there sharing the food, every ward went with their own.”

“On Monday, when they shared the food, these people were sharing food and people where seeing them. Nkolowa Saka was the one that shared their unit’s own, which is the Covid-19 palliatives, that was on Monday.”

“So do you see? For them to go and just lie down in the hospital, bandage themselves in the evening of Monday, that’s a wrong information.

“If any person was beaten up, they cannot be there when they were demolishing the place, and that the same Sunday they went to the area command where they shared food. On Monday they were sharing food in the community and people were seeing them. Let’s even assume they were beaten up and they were hospitalized, will people be seeing them?”

“I married 17 years ago, I have 6 children, I have never been handcuffed before. I have never been indicted somewhere, I have never been invited anywhere for criminal issues. How could I be part of a group to lead thugs? I fight against cultism, criminality. So why will it be Covid-19 something that they will declare me wanted?”

“I want the Governor to see me one-on-one with the whole leaders. Please this is my pleadings to you.”

“So many things has been happening in the party, they can suspend somebody and they can recall back the person when they find out the truth, when they found out the truth because he (the Governor) was misinformed.”

He denied any plans to dump the PDP for his former party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying he only wants the Governor to unravel the truth behind recent developments in the PDP Eleme chapter.

“I am not worried about the suspension, but let the truth be said. I cannot leave APC to PDP and they give me an appointment now, suspended from the party then I go back to APC, I don’t do things like that. I will remain until Governor finds out the truth.”

“The owner of the Prodest Hotel, I saw him last five years ago. If I see him now I cannot recognize him. The owner of the hotel… he doesn’t even live here, he lives in Lagos. Five years ago was when I know I saw him, five years, if not more than. I am not the owner of Prodest!”