The National Protocol Director of the All Progressives
Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Tony Okocha, has claimed that the
former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, is no longer the leader of
the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State.
Okocha alleged Amaechi voted for the Peoples Democratic
Party candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the February 25 presidential election while
he was still a member of the APC.
Okocha, who is also the Coordinator, Bola Tinubu Vanguard in
the South-South, stated this while speaking to newsmen in Port Harcourt on
Sunday.
Okocha further said he had mobilised support in the state
for the President-elect and that the party won fairly.
He alleged that the action of Amaechi was the height of
anti-party activity, saying he was now the leader of the APC in Rivers, adding
that “Amaechi has long abandoned the party.”
“It is clear cut and certain that our former leader, Rt Hon.
Rotimi Amaechi, became the leader of the party on grounds of him being a
serving Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“A day to the presidential election, he ordered his
supporters to go and vote for the presidential candidate of the PDP.
“And himself, we have it on record that he voted for the
candidate of the PDP, Atiku.
“That naturally
disqualifies him as leader and that I, Okocha, who won election with my own
faction for our presidential candidate is now the leader of APC in Rivers
State,” he claimed.
Asked if the development would not deepen the crisis within
the party, he said there was no crisis, but said some outsiders were making
incursions into the party.
“Power is transient. So Rivers State must not go into
flames. Everybody should be seen to be anti-violence,” he said.
But in a swift reaction, the State Publicity Secretary of
the APC, Darlingron Nwauju, said Okocha was no longer a member of the APC.
Nwauju stated, “Is Tony Okocha an APC member? He is merely a
member of an independent campaign outfit for Tinubu but not an APC member.
“Please ask him to mention the names of just five out of the
27 executive members of the APC in his ward. Tony is a ‘confli-preneur’ and has
a history of transactional politics.
“Are you not aware that the campaign outfit which he belongs
to here in Rivers State is torn apart because of money allegedly donated to
them by the governor of Rivers State?
“Has he been able to account for all the monies passed
through him? Even the PCC/ICC he belongs to is in disagreement with him.
“And he has not been able to assert himself on them. Please,
remind Okocha that when the pillars of the APC in Nigeria will sit down to
talk, he won’t be there.”
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