The Senator representing Rivers
South-East District in the National Assembly, Magnus Abe, has finally revealed
how his face-off with the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in
Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, started.
Abe, in an interview with Vanguard
over the weekend, said Amaechi had visited his Abuja residence to ask him to
kill any hope of becoming the state governor under the APC come 2019.
According to him, “The truth of
the matter is that the Minister of Transportation, Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi came to my residence in Abuja on the 29th December, 2016, few weeks
after the rerun elections for what I initially thought was a normal visit.
“My entire family received him
with much joy. After some chitchats, he asked to speak with me in the presence
of my wife. He then disclosed that the real reason he came was that he had
heard from two very important Nigerians that I was interested in running for
the governorship of Rivers State in 2019, and he came to warn me not to dare
it.
“I told him no one had started
running yet, because it was not yet time, but I pleaded with my friend to give
everyone, including me and Dr Peterside a chance but he said no, that Peterside
was out and that he could not consider me because I did not support Dr Peterside
in 2015.
“I was shocked to hear that and I
told him then that those who were saying I did not support the party in 2015
would answer to God. I also told him that I had not taken a decision on the
matter. Two things struck me from that visit.
“If the party structure was set
up for Dr Peterside it meant the decision to make Peterside the candidate was
taken before the party structure was set up.
“Secondly, if you knew I could
not win the primaries why not just allow me fail honourably if I decide to contest.
I think he was offended by my response because he called another meeting, this
time with my elder brother, Dr Abe who has always been like a father to both of
us in attendance with my wife and stated same position.
“But I still insisted that I would
say amen anywhere if anyone had said I would be governor. So, senator Uchendu
knew about those meetings and he knew about Amaechi’s position.
“The meetings at the Dome was
just window dressing, but I played along and I refused to talk about the private
meetings for obvious reasons.”
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