How we won presidential election for Tinubu in Rivers –APC caretaker committee

• Says party’s door wide open for Wike, Gov Fubara to join

From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja

The newly constituted caretaker committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Rivers State Chapter, has revealed that securing victory for APC candidate in the 2023 presidential election took some “manoeuvrability and pliability of forces.”

The chairman of the newly constituted state caretaker committee, Tony Okocha, made the disclosure on the sidelines after the inauguration of his committee at the party’s headquarters in Abuja on Friday.

He also spoke on speculations that the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, might dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling party, announcing boldly that the door is wide open to Wike; Rivers governor, Sim Fubara among others.

Also speaking while inaugurating the committee, APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, had defended the decision to dissolve the Rivers State executive and inaugurate the caretaker committee to take charge.

According to Okocha: “It is a bit painful that as members of the political party in a particular state as important as Rivers, we have not learnt our lessons. We are unable to beat our chest that we have been able to produce not even a councillor in the 119 wards in Rivers State.

“The last election will beat your imagination that a party that ordinarily ought to be robust, lost in the 32 House of Assembly seats in Rivers State. We got just a seat in the House of Representatives out of 13. We lost the three senatorial districts. In the governorship election, we lost woefully.

“We only thank God that with the manoeuvrability and pliability of us and some other forces, we can win the presidential election in Rivers state. I was going to remind the chairman when he said that Rivers state APC was the only state that won election in the South South. I need to remind him that it was both in the South-South and South East.

Out of 11 states, it was only Rivers that our presidential candidate won the election. We are going to perpetuate that.”