…Says Former Transportation Minister is the Face of Good Politics, Still Committed to Serving Nigeria.

…. Explains why AMAECHI contested the 2023 APC Presidential Primary and his political future

“….Furthermore, Eze re-echoed that Amaechi remains a member of the APC, adding that the former Governor’s recent BBC interview where he restated his membership of the party confirms his consistent allegiance to the ruling party, contrary to rumors that he had since left the APC….”

Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has dismissed as oblique allusion, arguments championed from a section of the media that after his loss to President Tinubu in the 2022 APC Presidential Primaries, former Transportation Minister, Chibuike Amaechi lapsed into an exhausted quietude, restraining himself from political engagements including intra-party concerns of the All Progressives Congress, which membership he still holds.

In a statement made available to the media, the erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP), said the silent disposition of the former Rivers Governor especially over the hazy political atmosphere in Nigeria and particularly the deepening political turmoil in Rivers State triggered by the struggle to salvage her battered soul from the captivity of her captors does not mean backing down from partisan politics.

According to the APC Chief, “as a patriot and lover of Rivers State, the former Transportation Minister only commits himself to actions that will in each peculiar circumstance calm frayed nerves and offer some respite to those Nigerians who feel disappointed over the country’s failed leadership. And though he may appear silent, he remains strongly behind his people and is committed to doing anything that will offer the desired opportunity that would better the lot of men and women of his dear state and Nigeria in general.

It is a fact most undeniable that there is crisis in Rivers state and Wike and his cohorts have plotted to make the state ungovernable for Gov. Fubara and uninhabitable for Rivers people, but you do not expect a political model like Amaechi to begin to make media appearances and issue press statements. No one is happy that Wike is trying to distract the Governor by instigating former Assembly members against him. What Amaechi can offer is wise counsel from his wealth of experience when consulted and not media parleys. So that cannot be taken for shying away from the problem of the state at hand. Amaechi cannot be on the side of evil but always on the side of God and humanity – the people.

On where lies Rivers APC structure, Chief Eze hinted that Wike made efforts through one hollow-brained jobber, Tony Okocha with the help of some people at the helms of the party national leadership to usurp a congressionally elected executives at the state, LGA and ward levels but the scheme was resisted and now a subject of litigation and further comments on that may be prejudicial. So we await the court to determine that question. However, anyone parading as caretaker in the name of Rivers APC is on the frolics of his own.

Furthermore, Eze re-echoed that Amaechi remains a member of the APC, adding that the former Governor’s recent BBC interview where he restated his membership of the party confirms his consistent allegiance to the ruling party, contrary to rumors that he had since left the APC.

On the question why AMAECHI contested the 2023 Presidential election and his political future, Eze recalled Amaechi’s statement during his recent BBC interview on this, ”

” I didn’t even want to run for election ,I ran for election in the primary because I felt I had supported people who promised me that they would change the country but they didn’t change it. Buhari promised me that he would change the country , President Jonathan promised me that he would change the country, then I thought maybe something is wrong with me I am not seeing the change or maybe there is a problem, there is no change why don’t you go and try . So I am not saying Buhari changed the country or not or Jonathan changed the country or not ,I am saying by my own interpretation I felt something needed to be done so I put myself up there and the implication therefore is that even if I lost ,I would still serve the party and the country.”

Chief Eze called on Rivers people to continue to stand firmly behind Governor Fubara, assuring that the Governor mean so well for the state and her people and only their support can help him ward off evil forces from the camp of the adversaries and succeed in delivering democratic dividends to the state.

Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State took to the streets of Akure on Sunday to protest over the alleged irregularities and the biased conduct of the ward primary election across the state on Saturday.

The ward primary election was meant to produce the governorship candidate of the party for the November 16, 2024 governorship election in the state.

The election has been reportedly marred with violence, irregularities and non-availability of election materials.

According to Naija News, a video seen on social media, shows the protesters storming the APC state secretariat in Akure and called for the cancellation of the ward primaries.

The protesters displayed their displeasure with different songs and chants over the conduct of the ward primaries across the 203 wards of the state.

Most of them are supporters of one of the aspirants, Olushola Oke, and they carried different placards calling on the national secretariat to remove the chairman of the primary election committee and Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo.

Meanwhile, some of the aspirants have raised concerns about the conduct of the primary election and decried delays in the distribution of materials.

They alleged that based on the conduct of the exercise, plans were made to favour certain aspirants and called on the party to investigate the process.

Kogi State Governor and chairman of the Ondo State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election committee has commended stakeholders and members of the party in Ondo state for their orderly conduct and massive turnout during the direct primary election in the state.

Governor Ododo gave the commendation while receiving reports from members of the APC Governorship Primary Election committee, security agencies and other stakeholders who monitored the conduct of the election in different parts of the 18 local government areas in the state.

According to Governor Ododo:

“I have received reports from our committee members and security agencies as well as NGOs monitoring the election including video footages and I can say that the process has been transparent and we are going to produce a candidate that will unify the APC ahead of the November, 2024 governorship election in the state.”

Responding to questions over delay in arrival of materials in some wards and local government areas, Governor Ododo said he was certain that the delay has no adverse effect on the conduct of the primary election.

The Kogi State Governor also expressed confidence that concerns noticed in the revalidated membership list would not have any major impact on the outcome of the primary election, stressing that the committee is well guided by the APC guidelines for the nomination of candidates for general elections and relevant provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022.

Governor Ododo called on the aspirants and their supporters to see the primary election as a contest among brothers and sisters in one family seeking to make the family better as candidate of the party in the November, 2024 Governorship election in Ondo State.