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…Rivers APC Caretaker Committee boss dares Gov Fubara to conduct LG election
From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Rivers state Caretaker Committee, has described former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, former Minister of Transportation, Abiye Sekibo and other PDP leaders in the state as political witches that want to join the APC through the windows and back doors.
Chairman Rivers APC Caretaker Committee, Tony Okocha made the description in Abuja at a press conference on Friday, while reacting formally to the media briefing by some PDP chieftains that declared support for President Bola Tinubu and the state Governor, Sim Fubara.
Last Thursday, Sekibo, Secondus; former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Austin Opara; Celestine Omehia, former deputy governor of the state, Tele Ikuru; Senator Lee Maeba; and former Secretary to the Rivers State Government, Gabriel Pidomson, among others had addressed the media, declaring support for the duo of Tinubu and Fubara.
However, reacting angrily to the declaration, Okocha, described the Sekibo-led PDP group as crisis merchants, stressing that only witches can enter the house through the window when the entrance door is wide open.
He said that if the group felt concerned, it would have been more honourable for them to seek solutions to the political poblems in the state rather than constituting themselves as snitches and fifth columnists in the state.
Okocha emphasised that the APC is open to receive new members from the other parties into its fold, based on the mandate given to his committee by the APC National Working Committee (NWC), but warned that the new entrants must apply decorum.
He said: “If the mid-night pseudo lovers of Mr President as shown in the text under critique, now are convinced that President is abundantly fit and proper to preside over Nigeria and that his 10 months in office has provided Renewed Hope for an eldorado for Nigerians and choose to recant their hitherto unsavoury and unprintable toxics against him, they should follow the proper channels allowed for porting or decamping to a new party.
“If they have respect for Mr. President as they mouthed, why would they publicly condemn and refer to as illegal, a proper Assembly made up of 27 members out of now 30. Who are all members of the APC, even when Mr. President in index – six of the Presidential proclamation, recognized them as the legitimate Assembly in Rivers State and instructed Governor Fubara to present the 2024 State budget to the legitimate Assembly led by Rt Hon Martin Amaewhule?
“Why are they calling out and trolling Mr. President, the leader of our party in such a derogatory manner? Why are they threatening the fragile peace in Rivers State? What counsels have they given against the prolifigacies of the PDP-led government in Rivers State?
“Are they not the ring leaders of the weekly rip-off of Governor Fubara and Rivers state coffers, through ostentatious jamborees conducted in the 23 LGAs of Rivers state, dubbed thanksgiving for Supreme Court victory of Gov. Fubara?
“This approach of brow-beating and blackmailing they intend to use is not fashionable at all. No sane host tolerates a guest who attempts to enter his/her house, through the window when the door is open. Anybody who does that must be a witch.
“When have they repented and withdrawn their suits in court, challenging the powers of the President to mediate in the political crisis in Rivers state?
“Have they repented from emboldening Governor Fubara to disrespect Mr. President by refusing to implement all the indices on the eight-point Presidential Proclamation, as panacea to the political crisis in Rivers state, which by their actions, they have continued to fuel?” Okocha asked.
Reacting further, the APC leader claimed that the fortune of the party has continued to rise in the state, challenging Rivers state governor, Fubara, to test his popularity by conducting Local Government election in the state to confirm his political strength.
“He (Fubura) should go and conduct local government elections if he knows he is popular with the people. He should go and test the waters to see if the crowd they have been carrying are not rented. We know he doesn’t have the people.”
He however lamented that; “under Governor Fubara Rivers state is more than drifting into a pariah state, to atrophying into abysmal oblivion, to say the least.”
