Magnus Abe, a former senator and chieftain of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), says the dispute between him and Rotimi Amaechi,
minister of transportation, is not personal.
The duo had been entangled in a leadership tussle over the
control of the Rivers APC apparatus.
The tussle between the Amaechi and Abe-led factions led to
the disqualification of the party from the 2019 governorship election in the
state.
However, last Friday, Amaechi’s faction triumphed as the
supreme court affirmed the sack of Igo Aguma — a loyalist of Abe — as the
caretaker committee chairman of Rivers APC.
The ruling means that Isaac Ogbobula, an Amaechi loyalist,
is the authentic caretaker committee chairman of the party.
Speaking on the issue, Abe, on Monday, said he does not have
to be friends with Amaechi, but it’s in the interest of the party for them to
work together.
“It is not a personal dispute between me and the former
governor and minister of transport. What I’m saying is that as members of the
party, we have our rights and entitlements and if those rights and entitlement
are respected in the scheme of things, the party can move forward,” Abe said
when he featured on ‘Politics Today’, a Channels Television programme.
“There is nowhere in the world where every politician in a
political party must be a friend to every other politician before the party can
run its business.”
The former senator said the crisis in the Rivers APC appears
“intractable” because politicians in the party refused to decamp when they did
not agree with the decisions in the party.
“Part of what has made the crisis in Rivers state
intractable is that we have simply refused to do what politicians do. Anytime
you are in a party and you disagree with what is going on in the party, you
simply pack your bags and move on to the next party,” he said.
He noted that the APC is not a mere political party but an
idea conceived to better the lives of Nigerians.
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