The African Action Congress (AAC)
has rejected the endorsement of Awara Biokpomabo, its governorship candidate in
Rivers state, by Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation.
Amaechi, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), on Wednesday, told supporters of the ruling party in the state that they
had a lot to benefit from voting for Biokpomabo.
Amaechi’s endorsement for
Biokpomabo followed the supreme court’s upholding of the annulment of primaries
and congresses conducted by a faction of the Rivers state chapter of the APC.
The party did not field
candidates for the senatorial poll and will not be able to field candidates for
the March 9 governorship and state house of assembly elections.
However, Malcolm Fabiyi, AAC
deputy national chairman (administration), in a statement rejected the
minister’s gesture.
Fabiyi said the AAC, the platform
under which Omoyele Sowore, publisher of
SaharaReporters, contested the presidential election, has not entered any
alliance with Amaechi.
The statement read: “We were made
aware of the APC’s recent endorsement of the AAC’s Rivers State gubernatorial
candidate in the forthcoming elections on the 9th of March. Rotimi Amaechi, the
All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has pitched his tent with
Awara Biokpomabo, our governorship candidate in the African Action Congress
(AAC).
“While we have no influence over
who other parties might choose to endorse, we wish to make it unequivocally
clear that we have we not entered any alliances or coalitions with the APC or
any other party in Rivers State, neither have we made any decisions to dovetail
parties or seek strategic alliances as we approach the state elections in a few
days.
“The AAC, led by Omoyele Sowore,
promised Nigerians a different style of governance at the national level; we
also believe we can bring this new promise of transparency and progress to bear
at the state level.
“We urge all PVC-bearing
Nigerians to come out en masse on the 9th of March and vote for transformation
and a true paradigm shift, the kind that only the African Action Congress can
bring.”
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