... Commends Odike for abandoning Abe’s
sinking camp
....Congratulated
Buhari for his tribunal victory
The
recent personal attack on the National Chairman of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, by the former senator representing
Rivers South-East Senatorial District, Senator Magnus Abe, has been described
as an attempt at destroying the party at the national level after dismantling
the party’s structure in Rivers State.
A
chieftain of the APC in the South-South and spokesman of the defunct New People's
Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, who raised the alarm in a
statement issued and circulated in Port Harcourt on Monday, noted that a recent
statement issued by Senator Abe's political outfit and signed by its
Director-General, Robertson Jack, was aimed at meting the same attack,
which denied the Rivers State chapter of the party of all rights to field
candidates in the 2019 general elections and gave the opposition People's
Democratic Party (PDP) access to an unopposed election, on the national body of
the APC.
Eze,
who lamented the latest turn of events, as being led by Abe, noted that the
former senator summoned the courage to turn the heat on the national body of
the party, even while continuing to make moves to ensure the party in Rivers
State never gets out of the incapacitation he foisted on it, because the
national executive council of the party, being led by Oshiomhole, has refused
to take the appropriate actions against him (Abe) for inflicting such
irreparable damage on the party in the state, despite all warnings and advice.
It
would be recalled that the Abe political organisation had recently issued a
press release with the title "HOW FAR WILL COMRADE ADAMS
OSHIOMHOLE GO TO DESTROY THE APC IN RIVERS?", aimed at disparaging
the national executive council and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the
party for going ahead to plan for fresh congresses in Rivers State and for
appointing a caretaker committee to run the affairs of the party in the
interim. Abe had kicked against the national body's decision and called on his
followers not to participate in the congresses.
"The
sin of Comrade Oshimohole and why he must be destroyed and ridiculed is the
resolve of the National Working Committee of APC to restore sanity and unity to
the Rivers State APC, by setting up a Care-Taker-Committee to care of the party
structure and activities pending when congresses are held to oversee the
day-to-day running of the party.
"According
to Abe and his group, 'the latest impetuous appointment of a 5-man
Care-taker Committee by the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee to
conduct Cogresses in the Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress
leaves us in no further doubt that the crises in Rivers APC is in the interest
of the nurturer, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman and his
sponsor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, the Transportation Minister'.
"The
group not satisfied by the above erroneous stand went further to insinuate
that, 'was it mere coincidence that few days after Adams Oshiomhole
suspended the conflict of confidence between him and his successor, Governor
Godwin Obaseki, Oshiomhole cornered two ministerial slots and the NDDC Board
Chairmanship for his Edo state, leaving Rivers State with just the appointment
of his sponsor, the Transportation Minister'.
"Abe
and his group went further to, after their meeting in Port Harcourt, resolve
not to participate in the congresses after all overtures had been made to them
to encourage them to participate in the congresses so that we can collectively
forge ahead as one united and vibrant body.
"However,
to resolve to unleash attacks against Oshimohole just because he is at the
helms of affairs of the party and decided to set up a CTC to preside over the
affairs of the party in the state, simply proves that Senator Abe is on a
mission to not only to destroy the party at the state level, but to dismantle
the party at the national level, considering all his efforts and faulty
reasoning that his nefarious activities will fetch him a ministerial post and a
good number of representatives in the Wike's yet-to-be constituted
Cabinet", Eze said.
He,
however, encouraged Oshimohole not to be deterred by the acts and attacks by
Abe and his proxies, expressing dissatisfaction that all his previous warnings
about the negative and destructive tendencies of Abe had not been taken
seriously, adding that he had over the last several months warned that the
continued presence of the former senator and his followers in the party was dangerous,
but that all entreaties had fallen on deaf ears.
"Now
that it is very clear that Abe does not want APC to exist in Rivers State, it
is left for the national leadership of the party to do the needful by expelling
this man and save the party from the plot to dismantle the party and weaken it
further ahead of the 2023 general elections.
"I
am happy that Prince Odike, erstwhile acclaimed chairman of Abe's faction of
the party, has finally seen reasons and has dumped him and his group for their
vindictive and destructive plots against the party and Rivers State at large.
In this vein, I urge others still supporting Abe in this devilish mission to
emulate Odike and come back to the political family that once aided them in
their political ventures", he said.
Eze urged
the leadership and members of the party to continue to keep faith both at the
state and national levels as all is done to find solutions to the
"nuisance that Abe and his group have constituted themselves to".
In another
development, the party chieftain congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari and
all Nigerians for the historical victory as affirmed by the Presidential
Tribunal in its ruling that truly stated that Nigerians overwhelmingly voted
for President Buhari and the APC during the last elections.
He
advised the presidential candidate of the PDP in the election, Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar, to ignore those urging him to further challenge the tribunal's
judgment at the Supreme Court, saying "nothing will come out of it apart
from wasting more huge funds on some greedy PDP political leaders and lawyers
who are aware that PDP has no sound case to question the verdict and veracity
of the last elections".
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