A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has countered former Senator Magnus Abe, declaring that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, isn’t the leader of the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday, the APC chieftain said, Abe and the FCT minister are non-members of the APC and therefore have no stake whatsoever in the party to warrant the frequent intermeddling that adds no value to the electoral chances of the party in the state.
Eze said that Abe left the APC in the buildup to the 2023 election to contest the governorship of the state under the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and Wike in the same vein has remained without a party since his deserving expulsion from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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Dismissing Abe’s assertion, Eze recalled that in 2019, Wike used Abe as an instrument of destabilization with the help of a compromised judiciary, to deny Rivers APC from fielding a candidate for the governorship election.
“By his utterances and other indulgences with Wike, Magnus Abe has continued to be an embarrassment not only to himself but to all those who once held him in high esteem.
“I feel very ashamed that Magnus Abe, once a highly respected political leader from the Niger Delta, suddenly no longer knows the hierarchy of a political party.
“By his declaration of Wike as Rivers State APC leader even as a non-member of the party, Magnus Abe has again, exposed himself to ridicule as this is an act of insubordination and affront to President Tinubu and the party leadership.
“The APC leadership and President Tinubu have clearly declared Governor Siminalaye Fubara as the APC leader and that is it, unless he is, like his master Wike, also challenging the authority of President Tinubu,” Eze said.
