A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Magnus
Abe, has said he will not support Tonye Cole, who is the party’s governorship
candidate in Rivers State.
Abe, a former lawmaker that represented Rivers South-East
Senatorial District in the National Assembly, is nursing the ambition to
succeed outgoing Governor Nyesom Wike under the APC.
“No I will not support Tonye Cole. I think that is clear to
everybody,” Abe said during an interview on Channels Television’s Political
Paradigm.
He accused Cole of not paying his dues and pointed to the
corruption allegations against him.
Abe added: “I am not part of how he became a candidate, he
has not been part of our party to my knowledge, and he didn’t contribute
anything to the establishment of the party. He has no record of service to our
State.
“There is an allegation that over $55 million of Rivers
State Government money was transferred to him by Rotimi Amaechi in a government
in which I served and I didn’t even know about it. So how will I now go and
support such a person to now take over the Government of Rivers State?”
Although Abe lost to Cole in the Rivers APC governorship
primary on May 26, he remains confident that his name will appear on the ballot
in next year’s governorship election.
He also insisted that he will not defect to another
political party in his bid to become governor of the State.
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