Rivers APC seeks remittance of 25% fund from forms sale as support

Omiete Douglas, Port Harcourt

The All Progressive Congress(APC) in Rivers State has urged its National leadership to remit 25 percent of the fund generated from the sales of forms from candidates of the state during the party primaries to strengthen the party.

Chairman of the party in the state, Emeka Beke, made the demand during a the party’s consultative meeting with stakeholders in the South-south zone, held in Port Harcourt.

Beke stressed that the state chapter of the party will reciprocate in the same manner it is being treated.

He said: “Please we urge the National chairman that Rivers state bought forms worth over one Billion Naira and we are requesting that they should remit to the state 25 per cent of generated through the sale of the forms.

“If the money is not remitted to the state they should forget about coming to the state to canvass for the presidential candidate.

“We will vote for our house of Representatives members, and Senate and put our focus on the governorship of the state and we will win.

“If the national body does not listen to us, we will take our destiny into our hands.

“The national body needs to support us if not we will not support them. We are loyal party men and we believe in the leadership of the party at the top but they should support us.”

Meanwhile, the party in the state has warned governors of the party from the southwest part of the country to stop visiting Governor Nyesom Wike at his private residence in the state, describing such an act as anti-party.

The Party urged its National leadership to prevail on the governors to desist from coming to the state if not for the sake of solidarity, saying ” visiting Wike is an embarrassment to our effort in trying to reclaim the state.”

Chairman of the party in Obio/Akpor council Sydney Nyeche, said : “We find it disrespectful that while we are toiling for the party in the state, some group of governors from the West come to the state, go to Rumueprikom and be negotiating with Nyesom Wike.

“The attention of the National Chairman is drawn to this because we will not tolerate this anymore, we have had enough.

“We urge the National Working Committee of the party to warn these governors from the west to desist from coming to the state to negotiate with the governor. This level of embarrassment we have suffered should stop.

“I can not be threatened every day because of my political leanings and somebody will come from the west to rubbish our efforts. If they can not come to the state to show solidarity, they should stop coming to the state,” he stressed.

However, the Vice Chairman, South-south zone of APC, Victor Giadom, who convened the meeting said the essence of the meeting was to understand clearly the challenges of the party in the state and areas to improve on.

He noted that he will collate the report and send it to the National leadership of the party to ensure that solutions to all the complaints are gotten.

“We want to know those things that we are not doing well as a party. The meeting intends to critically look at the party in the state to know how to reposition it and by so doing we will do more listening than talking.

“It was a very honest meeting where stakeholders have to bare their minds to the pains of what they are passing through in the party.

The reason we are here is to collate what we feel are the challenges in the party to ensure that we provide a solution”.