Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), has responded to Tony Okocha, former Chief of Staff to former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, for claiming that his principal voted for Peoples Democratic Party Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, during the February 25 presidential election while still a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Okocha told reporters in Port Harcourt on Sunday that Amaechi was no longer the leader of the APC in Rivers, and that his own faction of the APC had mobilized and galvanized support in the state for the APC presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, now President-elect, and that the party had won fairly and squarely
Now President-elect, and that the party won fairly and squarely in Rivers State, thanks to Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike’s strong support.
Okocha further said that Amaechi’s move was the pinnacle of anti-party activities, claiming that the former Minister of Transportation had long abandoned the party and was now the head of the APC in Rivers.
Reacting to Okocha’s claims, Eze noted that the crude and excessive desperation for power has taken a better half of Okocha, whom he described as a snooping rabbit hired by third parties to meddle in Rivers APC affairs and create confusion in a desperate bid to further the political pursuit of his paymasters.
“Tony Okocha’s inclusion into the APC presidential campaign council came through the recommendation of Sen. Magnus Abe, a member of the SDP, rather than the APC, as the former Chief of Staff has no business in the Rivers APC and could not have been so recommended having carried himself as an anti-progressive jobber,” Eze explained.
He urged individuals in Tinubu’s inner circle to keep their contacts with Okocha to their personal connection and not to expand it to the issues and concerns of the Rivers State Chapter of the APC, as doing so would entail bringing Okocha into the party through the backdoor.
Former Minister Amaechi, according to Eze, is a devoted progressive who could not have abandoned the APC presidential candidate in whom he has spent so much to proclaim support for another candidate on the day of the election.
He urged the public to disregard Okocha’s claim that he leads a faction of the party in Rivers State, emphasizing that the party is very much intact under the undisputed leadership of Amaechi, who was on the ground on Saturday, February 25, to ensure the party’s and its candidates’ interests were protected.
