Rivers governorship: Amaechi describes media reports of an “appointed” APC candidate as preposterous, mischievous, disingenuously deceitful

Recent media reports alleging that the Minister of Transportation and leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South South region, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has appointed billionaire business mogul Tonye Cole, as the APC governorship candidate, has been described as untrue and mischievous.

A press statement issued today,  September I, by the Minister’s media team reads ;

MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION RT. HON. CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHI DID NOT ‘APPOINT’ GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE FOR ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS(APC) IN RIVERS STATE.

On official national assignment in China, the attention of the Honourable Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has been drawn to several wild, misleading, misguided and deliberately distorted stories and claims linking the Minister, who is the Leader of the APC in Rivers State and the South-South region, to a purported ‘appointment’ of a Governorship Candidate for the APC in Rivers State for the 2019 gubernatorial election.
To clarify this fallacy, the Minister restates that:

As an individual, a registered voter and a card-carrying APC member from Rivers State, it is the Honourable Minister’s inalienable, constitutionally enshrined democratic right to back/support/promote any qualified fellow party member of his choice, to aspire to be the candidate of the party in the state in the forthcoming governorship election or any other election.
However, as a true and thorough democrat, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, a foundation member of the APC and a leading light of the party, recognises that the party candidates for the 2019 general elections will be chosen/elected by party members through the prescribed democratic process in the party’s constitution, rules and regulations.
It is, therefore, preposterous, mischievous, wholly and intentionally disingenuous and deceitful for anyone to claim, allege or even insinuate that the Honourable Minister has “appointed” a governorship candidate for APC in Rivers State.