The crises in the camp of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State may lead to a possible explosion ahead of its ward Congresses scheduled to hold tomorrow, the 5th of May, 2018.
Youths suspected to be APC members, vandalized the party’s secretariat along forces avenue, with properties worth millions of Naira destroyed and stolen.
This is coming as the deputy state chairman of the party, Chief Peter Odike has exposed undemocratic plots by the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to manipulate the congresses.
Chief Odike in a statement on Friday accused Amaechi who is the Leader of the party in the state of plotting to use Intels Camp as a place to perpetrate electoral fraud. The top chieftain of the Rivers State APC also called on President Buhari to call Minister of Transportation to order.
The press statement obtained by sources reads below:
“It has come to our notice that INTELS camp in Port Harcourt is being used by the Hon. Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the state Party Chairman of the APC, Chief Ibiamu Ikanya and their acolytes as a safe haven where all manner of electoral fraud is being perpetrated to subvert the will of members of APC in Rivers State in the ward congresses scheduled to hold tomorrow, Saturday the 5th of May, 2018.
All the electoral materials meant for the conduct of the congresses have been hijacked on the orders of the Minister of Transportation to the INTELS facility where nominations forms are being issued and lists of ward executives for an exercise yet to take place being compiled against the rules and guidelines of the party governing the conduct of the congresses.
In order to carry out this illegality and impunity, the party secretariat where all activities preceding the congresses ought to take place has been abandoned and deserted.
We therefore want to strongly appeal to the management of INTELS Camp and other hotels in Port Harcourt not to allow their business premises to be used to perpetrate fraud against the laws of the APC and Nigeria.
We also want to call on President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari and the National leadership of the All Progressives Congress to call the Minister of Transportation to order to desist from carrying out activities designed to subvert the will of party faithful in Rivers State as such activity is capable of painting our party in bad light thereby destroying the faith of the electorate in Rivers State that APC is capable of doing things right in accordance with its own rules.”
It will be recalled that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike in a statement on Thursday had advise hoteliers in Rivers State against allowing APC to use their hotels to forment troubles during tomorrow’s ward Congresses. However, the Rivers State APC in a response by its state publicity secretary, Chris Finebone termed Wike’s advise as hypocritical.
As at the time of filing this report, operatives of the Special Anti-robbery Squad, SARS, have arrived at the secretariat to restore normalcy.
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