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Senator
Magnus Abe and the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi have
tackled each other following disagreement over venue of APC congress.
Senator Magnus Abe and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi
The immediate past lawmaker representing Rivers South-East
Senatorial District, Senator Magnus Abe, has disagreed with the Minister
of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, over the alleged move to conduct
the congresses of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Punch
has reported.
Abe said in a statement on Monday that the announcement by Amaechi
that the congresses would be conducted in Rivers was unacceptable.
Amaechi was said to have announced to his supporters shortly after
his inauguration in Abuja by President Muhammadu Buhari that there would
be congress in the state.
Abe spoke at the weekend when members of the APC Visionary Media
Team paid him a courtesy visit at his residence in Port Harcourt, the
Rivers State capital.
He said in the statement signed by his spokesperson, Mr. Parry
Benson, that rather than concentrate on achieving the needed
contribution to national development, Amaechi was creating another
avenue for tension and crisis in the political structure of the party.
Abe pointed out that the minister was demonstrating the same unruly
behaviour that brought the party in Rivers State to a fiasco.
The senator urged the minister to demonstrate his sincerity in
rebuilding the party by consulting others and showing respect for the
rights and feelings of all members of the party.
Abe, however, appealed to members to be resolute and committed to the growth of the party in the state.
He assured the group that even if he was out of office, he was
still a politician committed to the development of the party, insisting
that what is needed is peace, inclusiveness, progress and the commitment
of all members to move the party forward.
“Look at the state of our party here today in Rivers State, yet
the Minister of Transportation, on assumption of office as Minister of
Transportation; the first thing he did was to announce congresses in
Rivers State and I ask myself, this was the same kind of behaviour that
led the party to where it is.
“Everybody in Nigeria knows that the origin of the crisis in
Rivers APC was from the congress and how the congress was handled and
there are extant judicial pronouncements on the last congress, which the
party was misled to ignore and we have all kept quiet in the hope that
by keeping quiet, we will create room for resolution of some of these
challenges, so that the party can move forward.
”Instead, you become more brazen in your challenge to the
rights, feelings, and interest of others within the same political
party. How do we do that and expect to make progress?
”What kind of congress? Is he the chairman of the party? Is he
the National Working Committee? Is he the court? What gives him the
power to come and announce congress on the day he was inaugurated as a
minister?
”Rather than address the issues of the country and the issues
of his ministry, the first thing he could do was to reopen the sourest
point in the heart of members of the party. And it is on that basis that
party members are deprived of all rights and benefits in the party we
all suffered to build. Is that how to grow a political family? Is that
how to grow politics? We will not accept that congress.
”Minister cannot sit in his office and make pronouncement on a
matter in which he and several other people have interest; people have
gone to court, people have fought for their rights in that congress and
the same thing that he did before, by creating confusion in the first
place, he is determined to continue to do it because he wants to prove
to the world that he is a conqueror. As I said before, nobody can
conquer Rivers people."
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