
Erstwhile Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Occasion (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has replied former Chief of Employees to former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, Tony Okocha, for claiming that his principal voted for the Peoples Democratic Occasion Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, throughout the February 25 presidential election whereas he was nonetheless a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Addressing newsmen in Port Harcourt on Sunday, Okocha alleged that Amaechi was now not the chief of APC in Rivers, including that his personal faction of APC had mobilized and galvanized help within the state for the APC presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, now President-elect and that the celebration received truthful and sq. in Rivers State with the massive help it obtained from Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike.
Okocha additional claimed that the motion of Amaechi was the peak of anti-party exercise as the previous Minister of Transportation, had lengthy deserted the celebration, saying he was now the chief of the APC in Rivers.
Reacting to the claims put ahead by Okocha, Eze famous that the crude and inordinate desperation for energy has taken a greater half of Okocha, whom he described as a snooping rabbit contracted by third events to meddle within the affairs of Rivers APC and create confusion therein in a determined bid to additional the political pursuit of his paymasters.
In an announcement, Eze reemphasized that the mentioned Tony Okocha had lengthy left the APC after a failed ploy by saboteurs to infiltrate and set off recent disaster within the celebration by means of him.
Eze mentioned, “Tony Okocha’s inclusion into the APC presidential marketing campaign council got here by means of the advice of Sen. Magnus Abe, a member of SDP, and never the APC as the previous Chief of Employees has no enterprise within the Rivers APC and couldn’t have been so advisable having carried himself as an anti-progressive jobber.”
He known as on these throughout the circle of the President-elect, Tinubu, to restrict their dealings with Okocha to the private relationship they get pleasure from and to not prolong it to the affairs and issues of the Rivers State Chapter of the APC as such endeavour will imply bringing Okocha into the celebration by means of the backdoor.
Eze mentioned former Minister, Amaechi is a dedicated progressive and couldn’t have deserted the presidential candidate of the APC wherein he has invested a lot, to declare help for one more candidate on the eve of the election.
He known as on the general public to ignore Okocha’s declare that he leads a faction of the celebration in Rivers State, stressing that the celebration may be very a lot intact below the undisputed management of Amaechi, who was on floor on Saturday, February 25, to make sure that the curiosity of the celebration and its candidates had been protected.
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