Adams Oshiomhole says the All
Progressives Congress (APC) is not in alignment with any other party in Rivers
state.
Speaking when he featured on a
Channels TV programme on Friday, the APC national chairman said neither him nor
the party’s national working committee is aware of any of such alignment.
The APC did not field any
candidate for the Rivers governorship election after the supreme court upheld
the annulment of the party’s primaries and congresses.
But Rotimi Amaechi, minister of
transportation, had said the APC will throw its weight behind Awara Biokpomabo,
governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the state.
“This morning, the leadership of
the party met and agreed that we would work with a party called African Action
Congress (AAC), while we are still in court to reclaim our mandate,” he had
said.
Oshiomhole, however, denied such
alignment and said it has never been discussed with him.
The APC chairman said: “I have
never spoken at any forum that we have aligned with any party. There is only
one party (I oversee) and that is APC, if there is going to be alignment, I
will know.
“I can’t choose to be in the
know. That has never been discussed with me or with any of the members of the
national working committee.”
‘I CAN’T APPOINT NEXT SENATE
PRESIDENT OR SPEAKER’
Oshiomhole also denied planning
to appoint the next principal officers of the 9th national assembly.
The APC currently has the
majority lawmakers in the both chambers of the national assembly and is
expected to produce the presiding officers.
The APC chairman said the party
will decide on who will emerge the principal leaders, while also promising
every geopolitical zone will be represented.
“Do I look like someone who can
appoint or impose somebody on the senate, even if I wish to?” he asked, adding:
“Is it be reference to my size or a standing army I have? All I have is the
power to persuade, to negotiate and to point out what might go wrong if we do
not talk together so that in the process of electing leaders, we do not run
into crisis.
“All I can tell you is that each
geopolitical zone will have a principal officer in the Senate and house of
reps; what that principal officer will be has not been resolved.”
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