Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP) and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has urged the newly-reinstalled Rivers APC enforcement committee led by Emeka Beke to guarantee that the authorities governor, Siminalayi Fubara, joins the nationalist ruling party.
Eze besides pleaded with the Beke-led State Executive Committee to formalize the rank of the 27 lawmakers led by the reportedly misguided Martins Amaewhule, successful obedience to President Bola Tinubu’s directive “that we should not discard anybody from joining APC.”
Eze made this connection connected Tuesday successful absorption to the judgement of a State High Court successful Port Harcourt, which affirmed the presumption of Emeka Beke and his squad arsenic the lawfully recognized authorities president and enforcement committee members, respectively, of the APC successful the state.
Recall that successful November 2023, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC, purportedly announced done its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the dissolution of the State Executive Council of the Party and constituted a 7-man caretaker committee headed by Tony Okocha.
Dissatisfied with the unsubstantiated enactment of the APC’s NWC, Beke, an state of Chibuike Amaechi, and his squad of congressionally elected State Executive Committee members filed a suit seeking the court’s involution implicit their unjust dissolution.
Justice Sika, who presided implicit the case, ruled that the assignment of Tony Okocha and six others was unjustifiable and successful gross usurpation of the APC constitution, noting that determination was nary valid crushed for the NWC to dissolve the democratically elected authorities enforcement committee led by Chief Emeka Beke, whose four-year word inactive subsists.
DAILY POST further reports that Justice Aprioku issued a perpetual injunction against the Okocha-led caretaker committee and reinstated the Chief Emeka Beke-led enforcement arsenic the authentic enforcement of the enactment successful the state.
Eze pleaded with the National Working Committee of the enactment to respect the tribunal judgement and accord Beke’s enforcement each the indispensable enactment to determination the enactment forward, adding that “we volition not tolerate immoderate undue interference successful Rivers State APC affairs, peculiarly by giving offices to non-members of APC similar Tony Okocha and his misguided co-travelers who are not registered members of the party.”
Eze said that present that sanity has been restored to APC successful Rivers State, the enactment should “lobby Governor Sim Fubara to articulation the enactment alternatively of immoderate different governmental party, arsenic we are acceptable to assistance him successful immoderate mode imaginable to determination the authorities forward.”
Eze described the judgement arsenic having “sent shockwaves down the spines of FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and his collaborators astatine the APC National Working Committee, arsenic their attempts to bribe judicial officers failed successful this instance.”
Eze called the menace by Tony Okocha to entreaty the judgement “the gag of the year,” stating that it is simply a last-ditch effort by a drowning antheral looking for thing to clasp connected to, arsenic his dubious means of extorting funds from Nyesom Wike and the enactment enactment nether the guise of enactment activities successful Rivers State person travel to an end.
Rivers: Ensure Gov Fubara, 27 lawmakers formally articulation APC – Eze to Emeka Beke