Amaechi Mum As Former Aide Invites Wike To Takeover As Rivers APC Leader

The camp of the penultimate governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi was mum on Thursday after a segment of the All Progressives Congress, APC called on his embittered foe and successor, Nyesom Wike to defect to the party and take over as leader of the party in the state.

A chieftain of the APC and former Chief of Staff, Rivers State Government House, Chief Tony Okocha gave the readiness of the party to surrender leadership of the party to Wike at a press conference in Port Harcourt on Thursday.

Okocha who was the Coordinator of the BAT-Vanguard, an acronym for the disbanded Bola Ahmed Tinubu Vanguard in the South-South said Wike has the right to join any party.

Okocha stated, “We are noticing that some persons who abandoned Tinubu when Tinubu needed them most and voyaged outside the shores are now relying on their personal relationships one way or the other to begin to make some sense of entitlement.

“That they are entitled to whatever. In the leadership of the Tinubu family in Rivers State, we are at peace 100 per cent with His Excellency, Barr Nyesom Wike, the immediate past Governor of Rivers State as our leader,” Okocha said in his readiness to accept Wike as leader of the APC in Rivers State.

“He who pays the Piper dictates the tune. When it was difficult, even when the national body could not oblige us with funds for the national rally here, the magic was done by somebody.”

While urging Wike not to delay his movement into the APC, he said:

“Our demand is that nobody should rob Peter to pay Paul. Our own share of the booty given to us should be handed over to His Excellency Nyesom Wike.

“We are confident that as soon as it gets to him, he knows those who worked for Tinubu, and it will get to us.

“It is only natural, that is how it should go, ” he added.

Meanwhile, the camp of Amaechi who had been regarded as the leader of the APC in Rivers State was mum on the development on Thursday.

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