RIVERS APC CRISIS: ABE, AGUMA SHUN AKANDE COMMITTEE…. Head For Court
“Their
move is aimed at finally dissolving Rivers chapter”…. Eze Warns.
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Charges national leadership to do the needful; sack the adamant duo if the
party's leadership is serious about having a party structure in Rivers State.
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Exposes the hirelings and none APC Members hired for the dirty task.
Elder
statesman and first Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief
Bisi Akande, a respected political leader from the Southwest, was a Governor of
Osun state (1999-2003) when most of the current political players in Nigeria
were still in school.
In
an interview granted to PM News on 15th March, 2020 immediately after his
inauguration in exercised historical statement, "Those seeking access to
the courts to decide what are basically political questions perhaps think they
are doing the right thing. If this is the case, I must state that they are
innocently in error".
“Their
actions are harmful to the party in compound ways. First, the subject matter
they bring before the court is not amenable to judicial pronouncement. The
manner by which court decisions are rendered, (one side wins, the other loses)
is not the best way to resolve political disputes. Again, such disputes are
better treated by dialogue and the give-and-take that dialogue engenders.
Courts do not proceed in such a manner. Second, to resort to the courts casts
the party in a negative public light. Third, this penchant for litigation
undermines party discipline, internal dispute resolution mechanisms and
institutions”.
Worried
over the brewing disregard and crass disrespect for party constitution, as well
as the manifest indiscipline being exhibited by Senator Magnus Abe and Hon. Igo
Aguma, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, said recent acts of the duo obviously points
to a lurking danger ahead of the party which must be aborted with every sense
of determination and renewed vigour.
In
a statement made available to media houses, the erstwhile National Publicity
Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) and
chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Eze, said Akande, the interim
National Chairman of the party, gave the warning and out rightly condemned the
floodgate of litigations instituted against the party, saying the litigants are
‘in error’.
He
also chided them for not exhausting the party’s internal conflict resolution
mechanism before going to court.
Full
details of the interview is contained in this link - https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2020/03/15/bisi-akande-apc-chief-peacemaker-to-litigants-let-me-do-my-work/
In
defiance to this plea and counsel by this elder statesman who turned 80 years
few weeks ago, Hon. Igo Aguma whose agenda is to weaken the nerves of the party
in a bid to ensure that PDP is the only functional party in the State so that
the plot to install an Ikwerre Governor come 2023, is achieved effortlessly and
to the detriment of other tribes in the State, went back to Court on 13/05/2020
to pursue his case against the party not to hold any Congress in the State for
hearing.
The
court has adjourned this case to 27/05/2020 for judgment. We just pray that the
Court should consider the plight of the party and dismiss this case
accordingly.
More
worrisome and shocking is the fact that Senator Magnus Abe, who ensured
that the APC in Rivers State did not participate or field any candidate during
the 2019 general elections is done with his effort to decimate the party's
chapter in Rivers State. To ensure the success of his mission, he has mobilized
some of his House-Helpers and non-APC members to sue the party and to stop her
from organizing any Congress in Rivers State few days after Aguma's case was
heard on a similar agenda.
Frowning
at Senator Abe's strategic craftiness, Eze said that, having achieved his
mission of destroying the party in the State, the former Rivers
South-East Senator was duly compensated by the PDP Government under the watch
of Governor Nyesom Wike, by allowing one of his allies, Barry Mpigi to be
elected a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria alongside two of his other
allies as Commissioners and members of the State Executive Council as well
other sundry benefits that have accrued to him, for working against a
party he claims to be a member.
In
his renewed determination, to ensure that the same fate that befell the party
in 2019 revisits the party by 2023, Senator Abe, defying all wise counsel
and reconciliatory efforts has mobilized some of his house helps and non-members
of APC to go back to court to revive the failed plot by his run away and non-existent
Umar and Co. whom he used to frustrate the party, during the general elections
in 2019.
Some
of these hirelings hired to execute his latest devious and devilish plot
against the party are Dele Moses, Poomi Friday, Gbosi Vincent, Nwankwo Freedom,
Otioma Lucky, Kingdom Nwosu, Tuanwin Ateni, Ugochukwu Nwocha, Peter N.
Bobmanuel and Emmanuel Okiasi.
It
may sadden the general public to note that those funny characters had on 14th
May, 2020, a day after Aguma's case was heard, filed a suit through their
lead counsel, Henry Bello, Esq to the fact that they have a motion for an
injunction against APC to restrain the party from conducting congresses pending
the determination of their suit.
However,
Eze commended the APC legal team, who immediately on hearing about this
latest plot, swiftly drew the attention of the court to the fact that there is
an existing injunction in lgo Aguma's suit against the said congresses, which
order the party has complied with till date. And that the party does not intend
to conduct the congresses until the matters in court are disposed of.
It
was at that point that their lead counsel H. Bello, Esq informed the court that
he wished to withdraw the motion for injunction since the APC lawyers have told
the court that we do not wish to conduct any congresses.
Eze
highlighted that not satisfied with this development, Abe's boys swiftly filed
a new suit seeking for interpretation of the judgment of Justice Nwogu which
was a similar matter before Justice Ollor who refused to grant them their
prayers in the case instituted by Ibrahim Umar and Ors V. Apc. They brought the
same matter believing that they can get a different Judgment because of
politics in order for them to usurp the reins of the party in the State and
empowered to organize the Congresses whenever it will be organized for them to
complete the total decimation of the party in the State.
The
public can recall that these hirelings were not part of the Ibrahim Umar
and Ors but in a bid to continue to seek relevance not knowing the legality of
their claims adopted this latest strategy to demonstrate their devious plot
against the party. The court has fixed Judgment on this case for June 8th while
Judgment for Igo Aguma V APC is on 27th of May.
Eze
recalled that one of Abe's House helps; Mr. Poomi Friday once threatened him
and said, "Chief Eze Chukwuemeka, God will soon disgrace you. Your
paymaster Ameachi is on the verge of collapse. Check out!" A photo shot of
this threat is attached to this release not knowing that what he meant was this
dubious plot of using the Court to once again disorganize the party and ensure
that Rt. Hon. Dr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi who is the Leader of the party in
South-South region does not have a foothold in his own State.
In
this regard as we wait for 27th May judgment of the verdict on Aguma's case and
that of Abe's boys on 8th June, the Akande led APC NRC should do the
needful and get Aguma, Abe and his boys formally removed from the party if the
Leadership of the party is still eager to have a structure of the party in the
State to execute its 2023 program because, if Abe and Aguma are not shown the
way out, the party will never have peace.
One
would have loved to see a situation where Abe, Igo and their cohorts exercise
restraints and allow the the Reconciliation Committee conclude its assignment.
Eze said the duo of Sen. Abe and Igo Aguma have shown crass indiscipline and
total disrespect to President Mohammadu Buhari, the party and its
leadership as well as the Akande-led National Reconcilliation Committee by
their latest actions.
The
party chief wondered the rationale behind the recent veer to court when
they could as well get justice at the party reconciliation level considering
their argument of having a valid claim and veritable grounds of grievance.
Eze
adopted the position of one of the political leaders of the party, Com (Engr)
Japhet Ogbueri, National Coordinator, Intelligentsia Network For APC (In-4-APC)
who recently posited that,"at this critical juncture in the political
firmament of APC in the state, any leader, member or stakeholder who still has
court case or intends to institute case against the party for whatsoever reason
can not be said to be wearing a thinking cap. It's grossly against the
provisions of APC Constitution to drag the party or its organ to court, even as
these juxtaposing court pronouncements have never favoured the party and
equally the sole reason why APC gravely and brazenly lost out in 2019 general
election".
Eze
agrees that there are some external principalities using these misguided agents
instrumentally to destabilize, dismantle, and disintegrate and disrepute APC in
Rivers State but with faith in God all these plots against the party will
collapse like pack of cards.
Eze
restated as always, that Abe and Aguma are serial saboteurs whose penchants for
greed must not be allowed to truncate the efforts of leadership at rebuilding
and repositioning the party for successful outings in future elections.
The
party chief appealed to Akande and his Committee to do the needful and save the
party from further disintegration and disgrace from the hands of these agents
of anarchy.
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