Crisis in Rivers State chapter of the All Progressive Congress may further deepen as factions are poised to hold parallel senatorial primaries.
The national secretariat of the party had on Monday omitted the names of its senatorial aspirants in the state, thus fuelling rumours that Senator Magnus Abe had been offered an automatic ticket to return to the Senate to end the impasse created by the parallel governorship primaries held on Sunday.
Theportcitynew gathered that the APC NWC yesterday approved that indirect senatorial primaries be conducted in Rivers State today. It was initially scheduled to hold on Tuesday but was shifted to Thursday.
The Publicity Secretary of the Ojukaye Flag-Amachree-led state executive, Chris Finebone, told our correspondent that the mode of the senatorial primaries would be through indirect primaries.
But spokesperson to Abe, Mr Parry Benson, said that the Odike faction would hold direct senatorial primaries today inline with the consensus reached by stakeholders in the state and communicated to the national leadership of the party.
Similarly, the lawmaker representing Tai/Oyigbo Federal Constituency, Barry Mpigi, has won the ticket for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Rivers South-East Senatorial District having defeated Senator Olaka Worgu.
Senator George Sekibo has also emerged as the PDP candidate for the Rivers East Senatorial District but the Rivers West election has been suspended.
