Some members of the State Working Committee, SWC, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers have indefinitely suspended the State Party Chairman, Emeka Beke, legal adviser, Iheanyichukwu Azubuike, and Publicity Secretary Darlington Nwauju.
By this action, the SWC of the party is now led by tg Deputy State Chairman, Omiete Eferebo, who accused the aforementioned party officials of “anti-party activities and financial misconduct”.
Addressing a press conference on April 5, in Port Harcourt, Rivers capital city, Chike Eyinda, a member of the Exco who now doubles as acting spokesperson, chided former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, for failing to lead the party to victory in 2015.
Eyinda said Amaechi allegedly publicly criticised the Presidential candidate of the party Bola Tinubu, and accused him of ensuring that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yakubu Mahmood, was reappointed. These comments, Eyinda described as “anti-party”.
Eyinda said: “We, the members of the state executive committee, therefore resolve as follows; that Emeka Beke, the chairman of the APC in Rivers state, is hereby suspended indefinitely for anti-party activities, gross misconduct and financial mismanagement pending the outcome of an independent committee of inquiry as may be set up by the party,” he said.
“That until the outcome of the committee of inquiry, Omiete Eferebo, the deputy chairman assumes the office of the acting chairman with immediate effect.
“These leaders have been responsible for the mass exodus of members of the party as well as the failures experienced by the party in the just concluded general elections in the state.
“Instead of being remorseful for what he did to the party, Chibuike Amaechi decided to hinge the blame on our dear president-elect, Bola Tinubu, claiming that he singlehandedly appointed the INEC chairman Yakubu Mahmood.
“We stand before the world today to totally condemn and dissociate ourselves from those statements credited to Chibuike Amaechi and the party chairman, Beke.”
Eyinda said the party’s national working committee (NWC) should set up an inquiry into the allegations leveled against the officials and Amaechi.
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