Abe faction of APC mobilize to contest Rivers Local Govt. Election

*Mock members of Amaechi faction as pawns in Political chess game 

BY IBRAHIM BAKARE

All Progressives Congress APC led Golden Ben-Chioma loyal to former Senator Magnus Abe, has asked has asked all members of the party to  pick up forms  to contest for both Councillorship and Chairmanship categories in the 319 Wards and 23 LGAs respectively 

Golden Ben-Chioma, factional Acting Chairman APC in Rivers State loyal to Senator Magnus Abe 

In a press Statement signed by Golden Ben-Chioma, a Lawyer, and the Acting Caretaker Committee factional Chairman of APC Rivers state has urged members to fully participate in the local government Council election scheduled for the April 2021 Local Government Council elections as announced by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission RSIEC. 

He urged APC members across the state  to be actively involved by participating in the forthcoming 2021 LGA Election in Rivers State because Political parties are set up to contest Election and win Political positions. 

“We must make the best of this golden opportunity to shake off the toga of never-do-wells as have been the case in the past”. 

He asserted that APC Rivers State has not only come to stay but must move away from our inglorious past, when the party did not plan adequately for elections due to the actions of one man, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi the Transportation Minister.

Chioma insisted that this time around members shall not only participate but must also strive to win seats in the Wards and Local Government Councils.

 The factional Chairman further called on his rival,Mr. Isaac Ogbobula, who he described as “a perpetual imposter, surrogate and so-called chairman of an aggrieved group loyal to the selfish, self-serving political interest of Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, the godfather to stop deceiving and misleading party faithfuls in the state”.

 He mocked  the group led by the godfather of APC Rivers State as always having penchant for creating false hope for unsuspecting members of our dear party with the aim of continually and perpetually putting their political future in abeyance.

Chioma further said “APC is a political party with a primary duty to contest elections and not a social club that ends up with meetings, airport receptions for the Minister, birthday parties,thanksgivings and burial ceremonies”. 

On the argument of the 2015 Local Government Chairmanship litigants mainly loyal to the Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi the Transportation Minister, he reminded them  that the tenure of office for which they were elected into office had long elapsed. He pointed out that this current Local Government Council elections scheduled by the Rivers State  Independent Electoral Commission RSIEC for April 2021, is the second in the series after their long defunct tenure. 

 He warned them to learn from the classical Ladoja case even though  it is their right to seek redress in Court believing that justice will come their way someday, wondered why the forces  engineering them today to push in futility for the scuttling of the forthcoming Local Government Area election had all the opportunities in this world to save or at least help them but failed to do so.

The factional Chairman advised others to stop playing into the hands of people whose only interested is to use and dump them.

“Are they not tired of being used as pawns just for the sustenance of the godfather’s political visibility and relevance? For the avoidance of doubt, this effort of theirs will not yield any meaningful result and they should know by now.

He reiterated members of his faction are committed to ensuring that youths and all others who have not had the chance to occupy elective political offices are encouraged to have a chance to win elections and occupy political positions successively contrary to the unbridled ambition of a known godfather who is bent on destroying them.

Chioma said the  commitment for giving young people the chance to contest for elective posts cannot be compromised wondering when blind followership be replaced by proper qualitative reasoning.  

“Are they not fed up and tired of being used by Rotimi Amaechi for destruction and divisiveness? When shall these young people wake up from this deep slumber of deceit and take their destiny in their own hands?”.

Meanwhile, Isaac Abott Ogbobula, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of APC faction loyal to Amaechi has called on members to stay away from the election because of the allegation the Chairman of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, Justice George Omereji retired, cannot be said to a neutral person because he had adjudicated in cases concerning the party in the past,and passed judgements alleged to be biased.