Amaechi’s Loyalist, Asks Abe To Shame APC’s Detractors By Supporting Congresses

By Emmanuel Aziken

A strong associate of the minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze has taken Senator Magnus Abe to task over his recent reservations on the minister’s call for fresh congresses in the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Eze in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, also noted that Senator Abe’s  reaction was an indication of his intents for the party, even as according to him it further showed that those who were afraid of the party’s clout and sponsors of Senator Abe’s alleged anti-party activities before, during and after last general elections, are still at work.

It would be recalled that Amaechi, had recently called for fresh congresses to reposition and prepare the party in Rivers State for future challenges. Senator Abe had reportedly maintained an antagonistic position to the call.

However, Eze, in his statement, expressed shock at the position of the former senator, wondering why a man who ought to have been remorseful and working through all channels to redeem himself, working with Amaechi and other leaders of the party, to remedy the damages his alleged actions, in collaboration with internal and external adversaries of the party, had inflicted on the party, is still unrepentant and fighting to wreck the party structures further.

“After Abe and his cohorts collaborated with both external and internal forces to see to it that the APC did not field candidates for the 2019 general elections, and instead of being apologetic, he is still maintaining that APC should not exist in Rivers State by rejecting the conduct of congresses in the State.

“For Abe to claim not to understand a simple directive by the APC Leader to APC members, to go and prepare for congresses, simply demonstrates that Abe has other plans up his sleeves. The Minister never meant he has usurped the functions of the National Working Committee of the party, whose responsibility it is to organise congresses, but to prepare members to be ready whenever the national leadership of the party decides to organise the congresses

“This act by Abe shows that those sponsoring him are desperate to ensure that APC doesn’t exist in Rivers State just to execute their impossible 2023 plots and ensure that Rivers State only operates a one political system”, he said. 

Eze urged the former Senator to prepare for the Congresses if his claims of being very popular among our people is anything to go by but he is aware that his popularity only exists within Television Houses and birthday events as most of the people supporting him hitherto have all gone back to PDP.

He, however, blamed the National Working Committee of the party for not calling Abe to order after seeing all harms that he singlehandely wrecked to disgrace the party in the state, adding that to permit him to cause further havoc on the party will be most unfortunate and unacceptable.

In this regard, he appealed to the NWC of the party to, as a matter of urgency, set up a committee to organise congresses in the State, saying “we can’t continue to operate without a party structure in the State and to Abe, I plead with him to reconsider his plots and shame our detractors who never meant any good for Rivers State and her progress”.

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