Tony Okocha, the Chairman of the Interim Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has leveled an allegation towards the previous Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi.
He alleged that Amaechi instructed his supporters to vote towards Tinubu within the final election.
Okocha added that Amaechi is an conceited individual. In keeping with Okocha, Amaechi doesn’t hearken to his followers and solely needs issues completed in accordance with his personal knowledge.
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In an interview with journalists, the Rivers APC Chairman additionally alleged that Amaechi directed his supporters to vote towards President Bola Tinubu who was the APC candidate within the 2023 elections.
Okocha, who was as soon as Chief of Workers to Amaechi, confirmed that the connection between himself and his former boss turned bitter and solely reached new heights throughout the 2023 elections due to the angle of the previous minister.
Responding to the query on mending fences with Amaechi, Okocha, whereas not ruling out reconciliation sooner or later, stated he is not going to abandon others within the occasion to go after one huge man.
In his phrases, “To be sincere, our relationship soured a lot earlier than he wished to turn into the occasion's presidential candidate. It was not due to cash or pursuits in our lives, however as a result of the occasion in its totalitarian angle turned a social membership.
“It was dangerous that the occasion didn’t even area candidates for elections, and the place we succeeded, they wished to withdraw. It's about weak spot, and nothing else. I instructed them that it’ll not be enterprise as regular as a result of the APC they noticed yesterday isn’t the APC they see below me at present. We’ll take part within the elections in all districts. We is not going to simply compete, however compete to win.
“The connection soured to a head throughout the presidential election as a result of they felt I ought to have supported my boss as a result of I had beforehand served as chief of workers. However I used to be on Asiwaju's aspect. His downside is that he has no time to hearken to his followers as a result of he’s conceited, nobody means something to him and he needs every thing to go in accordance with his whims and whims.
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“Once more, he introduced to his followers to vote towards Asiwaju. I’ve not bothered to search out out his standing inside the occasion as a result of now we have members of the transition committee who come from his camp. It’s also utterly incorrect to say that we try to exclude his camp.
“The interim committee didn’t come from only one faction. Bear in mind, three teams got here to nationwide headquarters and every of the teams instructed its aspect of the story. It’s unimaginable for anybody to invalidate the opposite. And the Chairman continued to emphasise one factor, to the purpose of alliterating that there is no such thing as a peace within the state occasion.
“The seven-member group is an amalgamation of the three teams. I used to be not from the Amaechi group, my secretary and the PRO have been all from the Amaechi faction. The reality is that they’ve shot themselves within the foot as a result of delight precedes the autumn. They really feel reluctant to determine with us.
“I consider within the philosophy of the extra the merrier. I'm not keen to sacrifice three individuals to search for one nice man. And I’m not the shepherd Jesus Christ refers to within the Bible, who left 99 sheep in the hunt for one lacking sheep.
“The danger is that earlier than you come back out of your search, it’s potential that the opposite 99 could have been derailed. I don’t rule out the potential of contacting Amaechi, but it surely should be gradual and topic to guidelines. I can’t be compelled to search for one huge man.'
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