…Gives Abe, minister three months to reconcile difference
By: Felix Ikpotor
Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ahoada East Local Government Area has frowned at statements by the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi which called for a riverine governor in 2023.
Rising from a stakeholders meeting in Ahoada, the party chieftains also gave Senator Magnus Abe and the minister an ultimatum of three months to reconcile their differences for the sake of the party or face action from them.
Leader of the group and former member of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Ibiso Nwuche said the statement by Amaechi that the riverine would produce the governor of the state under the platform of the APC could throw the party into another round of crisis.
Nwuche said, “on the statement by the minister of transportation in respect to the zoning of the governorship in Rivers State under All Progressives Congress in 2023 to the riverine, I believe that was his personal opinion and the statement was a bit vague”.
“It was his personal opinion because there had not been any meeting in the party as to resolve the issue of zoning the governorship of the party in 2023 to any ethnic group or any section of the state and neither where the ethnic groups such as my ethnic group-Ekpeye consulted in anyway within the party or even the Kalabaris or the Ikwerres within the party were neither consulted before his statement. I certainly believe that my ethnic group-Ekpeye will express her interest in the governance Rivers State in 2023. However, even the statement as regards to the riverine, where cant you find rivers in Rivers State? If your coming from Port Harcourt to Ahaoda you will certainly pass through the Choba and Ahoada rivers”.
The former lawmaker advised the minister to promote internal democracy within the party and not to engage in acts that are capable of dividing members.
On the division in the party, Nwuche said, “ we all know the party is divided into two factions. One is led by the Rt. Honounarable Rotimi Amaechi and the other faction by Senator Magnus Abe and we have resolved that having not had any benefit from the party due to failed leadership in the state, we at the grassroot level at Ahoada East have resolved and gave them till the month of July this year to reconcile themselves at the top and move the party forward before we take the necessary action”.
