Former group Executive Director of Sahara Grouo, Tonye Cole
has emerged as the consensus governorship candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, in Rivers State.
Cole emerged the consensus candidate after a meeting by
party leaders, late Friday night.
All 10 apsirants from the Riverine region of the State were
in attendance at the meeting.
Sources said the Minister of Transportation Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi was also in attendance at the meeting.
Tonye Cole is believed to be a close ally to the minister of
transportation.
He was chosen as the consensus candidate of the party in
2019 governorship election before the court judgement that ordered that APC be
removed from the ballot.
The latest decision by the party leader is said to be
upsetting some party members who have accused the minister of transportation of
” imposing” the candidate on them.
But a source who was part of the meeting explained that the
decision was taken by party leaders in the absence of the minister of
Transportation.
According to the source, “the decision has just been made
for Tonye Cole to fly the flag. It was not made by the Minister. It was made by
the leaders of the party.
“The 10 aspirants, plus two new names that also indicated
interest were asked to step out, while all of the leaders, minus the Minister
then sat and deliberated. We were just called back along with the Minister to
be given their decision”.
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