4th March, 2023
By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
By Okafor Ofiebor
The All Progressives Congress, Presidential Campaign Council, APC PCC in Rivers is divided over alleged support for the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Siminalayi Fubara in the March 11 governorship election.
A member of the Campaign Council Tony Okocha had recently said the members will vote for Fubara as compensation for the support the party got from Governor Nyesom Wike during in Rivers in last Saturday’s governorship election.
He said members of the Campaign Council had taken a decision not to support APC’s own candidate in the election, Tonye Cole.
But in a statement, Augustine Wokocha, State Coordinator and Ineye Jack, Secretary for Tinubu/Shettima Grassroot Independent Campaign Council and the Presidential Campaign Council, Rivers State, rejected the claim by Okocha.
Wokocha said it is important however to state that the credit for the victory of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC in Rivers State belongs to all Rivers persons who turned out to vote for the candidate.
“Wokocha who is a former Commissioner for Power under former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi said it is important to state that every opinion, expressed by Chief Tony Okocha in his aforesaid Press Conference, is his personal opinion as he neither spoke for the PCC, nor for the TSG/ICC led him in Rivers State.
He stated that at no time did the PCC/ICC meet to authorize Chief Tony Okocha to express the opinion and sentiments so expressed wherein he said Siminalayi Fubara of PDP.
He said further that APC PCC/ICC Nigeria, headquartered in Abuja and the President Elect, have not authorized any statement/sentiments such as those expressed by Chief Tony Okocha asking members to vote for Siminalayi Fubara.
He, therefore, implore all Rivers residents who are eligible voters to turn up en masse and reject the invitation of Chief Tony Okocha to support the extension of what he called the ‘rascality that the Rivers State Government of today represents. and to massively come out, vote and insist that their votes count on the 11th of March, 2023 for a better Rivers State.