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Abe APC Disagree Over Congress In Rivers by Giftedheart(m): 8:36am On Aug 04, 2017 |
The lawmaker representing Rivers South East in the
National Assembly, Senator Magnus Abe, said on
Saturday that the All Progressives Congress in
Rivers State failed to hold its congress in the state.
This is as the state Publicity Secretary of the party,
Mr. Chris Finebone, disagreed with Abe, insisting
that the APC congress was successfully held across
the state.
These two positions may have exposed the crisis
rocking the state APC within the past three months.
Abe explained that recent development in the APC
was disturbing, adding that people were said to be
filling in result sheets without election.
He described the situation as an embarrassment to
the country and maintained that it would be difficult
to change the country if personal behaviours were
not changed.
“As you can see, there has been no congress in the
state. The so-called stakeholders meeting in the
state on Friday ended in a fiasco. The committee
from the national level has not come to the party’s
secretariat on Forces Avenue since morning, yet
people have been here.
“Nobody should stay in a hotel and use any list for
Rivers people. It is clear there was no congress in
the state. Whatever has been done will not stand.”
He further said, “We heard that people were filling in
the result sheets in a hotel while all party leaders
were in the office. This is an embarrassment to the
Federal Republic of Nigeria. I am sure that the whole
country is aware of what’s going on here.
The APC members led by Abe, House of
Representatives member elected on the party’s
platform, Mr. Barinada Mpigi, Chidi Wihioka and
Tony Okocha, who is a former aide to Mr. Rotimi
Amaechi, went to the hotel to ask members of the
convention committee to address them there.
They alleged that the team was in the state to rig
the congress against Abe ahead of the APC national
convention. It took the intervention of the state
police command, who took the convention
committee members and Abe to the command’s
headquarters for negotiation, after over four hours of
disagreement at the hotel.
SUNDAY PUNCH, however, learnt that while the
disagreement at the hotel was going on, the pro-
Amaechi members of the party were holding the
election in the 23 local government areas of the
state.
Some of the results showed that in Obio/Akpor LGA,
Lawrence Chuku, Chikordi Dike and Madame
Beatrice Wogunka emerged as delegates, while in
Etche LGA, Nnamdi Okere, Golden Chioma and Mrs.
Cilecilia Mmeni, emerged as delegates.
In Emohua LGA, Sampson Agbaru, Allen Nma, and
Mrs. Otonah were among those elected during the
congress.
Spokesperson for the Rivers APC, Mr. Chris
Finebone, said it was wrong for anybody to say that
there was no party congress in the state on
Saturday.
“I know that the party chairman and some officials
of the party were engaged and that made them not
to go round the way they would have loved to do.
The constituents and delegates were there and most
importantly, INEC was there. That they were not able
to move around does not mean that the congress
did not hold. There is no result written anywhere.
Congresses held across the state,” Finebone said.
Also, the Director General of Nigerian Maritime
Administration and Safety Agency, Dr. Dakuku
Peterside, lauded the state chapter of the APC for
the conduct of a non-elective congress and election
of delegates for the party’s forthcoming national
convention.
Peterside, who commended party leaders and
supporters at various levels and congress officials
for conducting a hitch-free exercise, noted that the
Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike
Amaechi,and the state party executives exhibited
sound leadership in achieving transparent
coordination of the congress. |
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