Despite the ban on campaigns in public schools without approval by the Rivers State Government, the APC says it will campaign across the length and breadth of the state as prescribed by the law.
Governorship candidate of the party Tonye Cole disclosed this in a statement signed by spokesperson of his campaign team, Sogbeye Eli on Sunday.
He said the party will not succumb to the intimidation, as it is a ploy to stifle the opposition space for political parties in the state.
“We will neither succumb to intimidation nor accept the presentation of a fait accompli by Executive Order 21 to political parties other than the Peoples Democratic Party on which platform they and the Governor were elected in the first place,” he said.
“That APC shall campaign with our candidates across the length and breadth of Rivers State as provided under the constitution and as prescribed by law,” he added.
He also said that the enforcement of that Order by Council Chairmen would amount to a brazen affront on their constitutional rights as political parties and a campaign organization.
