The All Progressives Congress,
APC, in Rivers State on Wednesday held its first State Executive Council
meeting after several months.
It was gathered that the APC
SEC meeting was held ahead of the State Party Congress scheduled for this
weekend.
However, the meeting was not void
of controversies as some leaders of the APC led by Senator Magnus Abe walked
out.
The Senator representing Rivers
South-East Senatorial District, Abe walked out with his supporters to hold a
media conference at his Governorship campaign office in Port Harcourt where he claimed
that those at the meeting were not members of APC SEC.
He said the meeting was already
flawed, just as he expressed worry that the APC state congress may not be free
and fair.
Senator Abe advised the party not
to take actions that will interfere with the process of electing credible
people into the State Executive Council.
“The meeting had a few challenges
in my view because the State Executive Committee of the party is a
constitutional body provided for in the APC Constitution, but as we observed at
the meeting, most of those who turned up for the meeting were not members of
the State Executive Committee.
“A lot of them were rather
co-opted into the Committee this afternoon by means that were far from clear to
us. Several members of the Committee expressed misgivings on that note.
“We have not heard from the State
Chairman of the party and the State Working Committee as to how that will be
done with respect to some of the concerns that have been expressed and some of
the actions that have been taken.
“We have had cause to advise the
party against trying to take any action that is likely to interfere with the
ability of members to elect people of their choice to manage the affairs of the
party.
“The things that have gone on in
the state over the past couple of weeks have already giving members of this
party very serious concerns about the transparency of the management of the
process that is forthcoming.
“As you can see, members of the
party all across the state are mobilized and ready for the congresses but it
has to be a congress where the actual result as determined by the people on the
field is what will be reflected in the records of the party”, Abe said.
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