ALL Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state has sent warning shots to President Mohammadu Buhari, the party’s presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu and the National Executive Council, urging them to address their grievances or lose their participation in next year’s presidential election.
At an interactive session convened by the party’s National Vice Chairman, South-South, Victor Giadom, Sunday night in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, stakeholders accused the party leaders of working against the interest of Rivers APC by their actions and inactions.
In the no holds barred outpouring of pains, Legal Adviser to Rivers APC, Dike Zubi, told Giadom, himself a Rivers son, that, “It is very discouraging for APC in Rivers to see the Presidential candidate of the APC, Tinubu, and his loyalists, including South West governors of the party and Speaker of the House of Reps, begin to hobnob and hold nocturnal meetings with Governor Nyesom Wike who is the main antagonist of APC in Rivers.
“We frown at such actions. It doesn’t encourage us here. We see it as anti-party on the side of Tinubu and his cohorts who instead of coming to strengthen APC in Rivers, are seen hobnobbing with the Governor of Rivers who is a PDP member. It is an affront to APC Rivers and anti-party.
“My call is to the National Chairman and President Mohammadu Buhari, to call the presidential candidate to order. He should stop dividing APC in Rivers state for his own personal interest. APC in Rivers is on the family.”
Chief Sydney Nyechie, Chairman APC Obio Akpor Local Government Area said, “We are toiling day and night to ensure come 2023 Rivers APC take over Rivers, then South West APC governors and the Speaker of Reps will come to Rivers to say they are commissioning projects and be singing praises of Governor Wike.
“By doing that they are ridiculing us before Wike and Rivers people. Those people (Rivers APC South West leaders) have no business coming to the state to romance with Governor Nyesom Wike. The embarrassment we are receiving from APC leaders at national is too much. We will not take it.”
Nyechie, chiding President Buhari added, “From 2015 we lost members, killed due to election violence against us. I was attacked and stripped at Okrika. Whether we won in Rivers or not we contributed our own quarter to Buhari becoming President. Buhari did not one day tell Rivers APC sorry for what happened. We were left like orphans.
“Because of personal differences with Wike, my office, a three-story building was levelled. I will be in this state suffering for APC and governors from the West or Reps Speaker will come to Rivers and be praise singing and negotiating with Wike. Tell the national chairman that Rivers people are saying enough is enough. This level of embarrassment has become too much.”
