The leadership of the African Action Congress (AAC) has distanced itself from the endorsement of its Rivers State governorship candidate, Awara Biokpomabo by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party in a statement made available to theportcitynews said it has “no alliances or coalition with the APC or any other parties in Rivers state”.
The Minister of Transportation and leader of the APC Rivers State and the South-South, on Wednesday during a meeting of the party chieftains had pitched his tent with Awara Biokpomabo, the AAC governorship candidate in the state.
Amaechi said that the leadership of the party met and agreed for the APC to work with a party called African Action Congress (AAC), while the APC is still in court to reclaim its mandate.
According to Amaechi: “So, on Saturday (March 9), we will vote for AAC. You must go home and vote for AAC. There should be no excuse not to vote, because there will be security for everybody. You must prepare and make sure you win the governorship election.”
But the AAC denied ever having such meetings with the APC.
The party in a denouncement conveyed in a press release signed by its Deputy National Chairman (Administration), Dr. Malcolm Fabiyi, AAC said: “We were made aware of the APC’s recent endorsement of the AAC’s Rivers State gubernatorial candidate in the forthcoming elections on the 9th of March. Rotimi Amaechi, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has pitched his tent with Awara Biokpomabo, our governorship candidate in the African Action Congress (AAC).
“While we have no influence over who other parties might choose to endorse, we wish to make it unequivocally clear that we have we not entered any alliances or coalitions with the APC or any other party in Rivers State, neither have we made any decisions to dovetail parties or seek strategic alliances as we approach the state elections in a few days.”
Fabiyi reassured the public that “the AAC, led by Omoyele Sowore, promised Nigerians a different style of governance at the national level; we also believe we can bring this new promise of transparency and progress to bear at the state level”.
“We urge all PVC-bearing Nigerians to come out en masse on the 9th of March and vote for transformation and a true paradigm shift, the kind that only the African Action Congress can bring,” he said.
