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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Chief Tony Okocha, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has kicked against his former principal, Rotimi Amaechi\u2019s insistence in zoning the party\u2019s governorship ticket to the Riverine area.<\/p>\n

Okocha declared that Amaechi, who is the current Minister of Transportation, cannot decide where the next governor of the State will come from.<\/p>\n

Okocha, who was Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, during Amaechi\u2019s reign as governor, said this at the inauguration of the Obio\/Akpor LGA chapter of a political pressure group, the Rivers Voice of Freedom (RVF).<\/p>\n

Okocha said no individual had the responsibility to zone the party\u2019s governorship\u2019s sole ticket to any zone of the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, he spoke his mind; he didn\u2019t speak the mind of the party. I don\u2019t think he spoke for the APC. He spoke as an individual,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like the Southern Governors that want the Presidency to come to the South and people from the North are kicking against it, that is the Honourable Minister\u2019s opinion. It has nothing to do with Rivers people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Chief Tony Okocha, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has kicked against his former principal, Rotimi Amaechi\u2019s insistence in zoning the party\u2019s governorship ticket to the Riverine area. Okocha declared that Amaechi, who is the current Minister of Transportation, cannot decide where the next governor of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1571,1570,2140,250,254,3489],"class_list":["post-46798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-1571","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-amaechi","tag-nigeria","tag-okocha"],"yoast_head":"\n2023: Okocha tackles Amaechi on zoning - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chief Tony Okocha, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has kicked against his former prin ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-okocha-tackles-amaechi-on-zoning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023: Okocha tackles Amaechi on zoning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chief Tony Okocha, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has kicked against his former prin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-okocha-tackles-amaechi-on-zoning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-15T15:16:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60f04aadb5476.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"935\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-okocha-tackles-amaechi-on-zoning#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-okocha-tackles-amaechi-on-zoning\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2023: Okocha tackles Amaechi on zoning\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-15T15:16:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-okocha-tackles-amaechi-on-zoning\"},\"wordCount\":196,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-okocha-tackles-amaechi-on-zoning#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60f04aadb5476.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2023\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Amaechi\",\"Nigeria\",\"okocha\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-okocha-tackles-amaechi-on-zoning#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-okocha-tackles-amaechi-on-zoning\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-okocha-tackles-amaechi-on-zoning\",\"name\":\"2023: Okocha tackles Amaechi on zoning - 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