Worgu Boms, a former Rivers State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, has described the inauguration of Ojukaye Flagin-Amachree’s new Executive Committee for All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State as a nullity that would not stand.
Worgu Boms said that the APC National Chairman, Odigie Oyegun, after an earlier indication to be contrary, had on Monday, sworn in Flag-Amachree among others who emerged new state chairmen of the APC following the recent controversial congresses of the party.
Boms, former Rivers Attorney-General during Chibuike Amaechi’s tenure and staunch supporter of Senator Magnus Abe’s camp of Rivers APC, while responding to the development, said the inauguration of a new Executive Committee for Rivers APC amounts to contempt of court.
He said: “the purported new Rivers exco will not stand. There is a court order which said they shouldn’t hold any congress in Rivers. They went ahead to hold a congress, cancelled it, and held another one.
” All those actions were outside of the court, so the congress cannot stand. What the national body needed to do was follow the path of law. I only know about Rivers, I don’t know what happened in other places. Inauguration cannot take the place of law in Rivers State” he argued.
Meanwhile, the new Rivers APC Chairman, Flag-Amachree, who had gone ahead to inaugurate his co-executives, continues to maintain that the court decision over the contentious Rivers congresses of the party did not affect the ones that brought about the emergence of the new EXCO.
