A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southsouth zone, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has urged the Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, to forgive the representative of Rivers Southeast Senatorial District in the 7th and 8th Senate, Magnus Abe.
He also lauded the National Working Committee (NWC) of APC, led by a former Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adam’s Oshiomhole, for setting plans in motion for the conduct of fresh ward, local government and state congresses of the party in Rivers, between September 17 and 28 this year.
Eze, Friday in Port Harcourt, hailed the members of NWC of APC for putting in place the Isaac Ogbobula-led five-man caretaker committee of the party in Rivers state, in order to move to the next level.
He noted that conducting the ward, local government and ward congresses of APC in Rivers would ensure the setting up of the party’s structures, for the task of not only reclaiming the state, but positioning APC to play the active and positive roles expected in Nigeria’s politics.
In spite of the rejection of the caretaker committee and vowing not to participate in the congresses by Abe, a former Secretary to the Rivers State Government (SSG), when Amaechi was governor, along with his supporters, Eze insisted that there was no faction in Rivers APC, but a party under the single leadership of transportation minister.
The APC chieftain admonished senator Abe and his supporters to come to terms with the reality on the ground and prepare for the conduct of the ward, local government and state congresses, if they are still members of the party.
On Wednesday, the factional Chairman of APC in Rivers, Chief Peter Odike, abandoned Abe and he returned to Amaechi’s mainstream of the party, but the senator accused him of inducement.
