Ogonis will reject APC at the polls if Amaechi stops Abe- MOSOP

The People of Ogonis will reject APC at the polls if Amaechi stops Abe. The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) alleged that there are attempts by Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi to stop the governorship ambition of Senator Magnus Abe.

 

Elder Bari-ara Kpalap, the Spokesperson for the MOSOP elders declared this recently in Port Harcourt.

 

He said Amaechi is plotting to impose a riverine person as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State.

 

He warned that all the four local councils in Ogoni would reject the APC at the polls, if Amaechi does not dump his plan.

 

Kpalap recalled that it was agreed at a meeting in 2014 at the Government House, that an Ogoni should be supported for governorship after the 2015 elections.

 

He said the meeting followed the failure of the APC to allow an Ogoni indigene to contest the 2015 governorship poll, which, he alleged, was spearheaded by Amaechi.

 

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He said: “Having earlier agreed to, and reassured Ogoni leaders at the meeting of his support for the Ogoni governorship drive, the U – turn demonstrates crass double – standard and unreliability. It is also a devious stab to pitch the Ogoni against our riverine brothers.

 

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Minister of Transportation and leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South-South geo-political zone, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, has vowed not to support the governorship ambition of Senator Magnus Abe.

 

Senator Magnus Abe and Transport Minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who is a former governor of the state, also reiterated that there were no two factions in the APC in Rivers, adding that the party had remained a united and viable opposition to the leading People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.

 

Amaechi, weekend at a meeting in Port-Harcourt, with Ikwerre APC Chiefs and Elders’ Forum, IACEF, noted that out of 2.5 million voting strength in the state, his ethnic nationality, Ikwerre alone, produces 1.1 million.