SOME CLARIFICATIONS ON RIVERS APC:

I listened to a man this morning on Today FM making all manner of insinuations including that the Hon.Minister for Transportation,Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is against the gubernatorial ambition of Sen.Magnus Abe.

Let's put the record straight;

i) CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHI is not against the ambition of anybody including that of Sen.Magnus Abe. The situation is that APC is the major opposition party in Rivers that faced so much challenges in the recent past. Recall that the elections in Rivers State which began in 2015 lingered till Dec,2016 with series of rounds of elections, which in turn,impacted heavily on party cohesion, resources and management.

At the end of the elections, Amaechi, as leader of the party and the party leadership in the state called a stakeholders meeting and requested a collective effort to re-build and re-strenghten the party ahead of 2019. He appealed to every member with ambition to give the party just 6 months within which all the issues of sabotage and mistrusts arising from the different interests would be resolved and the field thrown open to everybody to canvas supports.
To this, most party members agreed, only very few refused, they have since begun campaigns while every other person is respecting the party's directives.

ii) SELECTION OF CANDIDATES FOR 2019 ELECTIONS:

On this, both Amaechi himself and the leadership of the party have said that nobody would fly the party's flag for any of the elective positions, be it Assembly, House of Reps, Senate Guber or even the Presidency without emerging from popular, free and fair party primaries. This fact has been reiterated again and again by the party both at the State and the National. So the issue of imposition of candidates does not exist anywhere.
What the party has and is saying is that everybody who has an ambition must go through primaries but that the primaries would hold when both INEC,the statutory body in charge of elections and the Party's National leadership blow the whistle in order not to run foul of the Electoral laws.

These same people crying blue murder are those who wanted both Amaechi and the party leadership to endorse them even before primaries are held. It was when they refused that these attempts at insulting, denigrating, maligning and blackmailing Amaechi,Dakuku,Ikanya,Emeka Beke and other party leaders began.
In Rivers APC, we have a situation where some people feel that they are above the party,they are too big to respect the party's directives, they have become Alpha&Omega that can't be called to order. But we all know that even in heaven, there is order,nobody or group of persons can be above the laws of their organization or country.

Finally, when you hear that Amaechi wants to impose candidates, just know it's a lie mischievously been used to gain your sympathy, do not fall for it.
At the appropriate time, INEC and the party will release guidelines, when that is done, I assure you that you would see hundreds of aspirants that have only held back their ambitions in obedience to the party leadership and not out of cowardice.

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Waste of precious time and resources

Scallywags