In Rivers State, members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, are preparing for a new crisis.
Tony Okocha, the former chief of staff to former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, has now declared himself to be the state’s APC leader.
Okocha, in a media briefing held in Port Harcourt on Sunday, asserted that his emergence as the leader of the APC in the state followed Amaechi’s alleged directive that members of the APC vote against the then Presidential Candidate of the party, now President-elect Bola Tinubu, in the recently concluded elections.
“A day before the presidential election, he instructed his followers to vote for the PDP candidates. We also have evidence that he voted for the PDP’s candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
“This automatically disqualifies him as the leader. And that I, Chief Tony Okocha, who won the election for our presidential candidate with my own faction, am now the leader of the APC in Rivers State,” he claimed.
Darlington Nwauju, the Publicity Secretary of the APC in Rivers State, insisted that the former Chief of Staff to Amaechi is not a member of the party in the state in response to Okocha’s self-enthronement.
Nwauju stated that Okocha was merely a member of Tinubu-independent Shettima’s campaign organization in the recently concluded presidential election.
According to him, Okocha is a transactional politician because he cannot name five APC executive members from his ward.
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According to him, “Are you unaware that the campaign organization to which he belongs in Rivers State is in shambles due to money allegedly donated by the Rivers State governor?”
“Please remind Tony Okocha that he will not be present when the pillars of the APC in Nigeria meet to deliberate.
Let it also be known that a million Tony Okochas cannot prevent the Rivers APC from winning the election on 11 March 2023.
Okocha is among the APC members in Rivers State who reportedly did not participate in the party’s 2021 membership revalidation exercise.
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