The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, has described the rejection of the court ruling which reinstated, Emeka Beke as state chairman of the party by the National Working Committee of the party as a national embarrassment.
Spokesperson of the party, Darlington Nwauju in a statement said the action of the NWC casts Nigeria as a country operating outside the rule of law.
He also said their actions are constituting a great cog in the wheel of progress of the party, and warned them to stop distracting President, Bola Tinubu with ill-timed political permutations.
He said, “We must say without equivocation that the activities of the current NWC are constituting a great cog in the wheel of progress for our great party and communicate a rather taciturn posture to party cohesion, while debasing pluralism of thoughts and encouraging dissent.
“With the greatest respect, references made by Mr Fuanter on behalf of the NWC alluding to the existence of a mystery suit which “sacked” all elected APC Executives in Rivers State and an appeal lodged at the Court of Appeal by the State Chairman challenging same is grossly misleading and should have been produced in court as part of evidence to justify the illegal decision made on November 22 2023. Nigerians are invited to peruse the entire forty-eight (48) page judgment delivered by Justice S.H. Aprioku in Suit No. PHC/CS/3592/2023. For the sake of emphasis, the suit in question was instituted on behalf of aggrieved members of the State Executive Committee by the Secretary of the Rivers State chapter of the APC and not the Chairman.
We condemn this obvious national embarrassment on our party and plead with members of our NWC to guide themselves properly by getting very neutral interpretation of and digesting the judgment of August 12 2024, as this is the only existing judgment anywhere in Nigeria as touching elected Executives of APC in Rivers State. We have heard rumours of plans to slam suspensions on members of the State Executive Committee, while we also hear that some desperate individuals are making attempts to manufacture an abracadabra judgment from an Abuja High Court against the State Executives and backdating same, but we wait to see.
Let it be known that the continuous attempt to oxygenate a contraption in the name of a Caretaker Committee in Rivers State is a slap on the face of the judiciary. As it is today, the tenure of the Elected Executives of the party in the state has been preserved by the Order of court, therefore, contemplating fresh Congresses for the party in Rivers State will not only be an act of illegality but shall amount to sheer waste of resources.
We close by appealing to the NWC to stop distracting our beloved President with ill-timed political innuendos/permutations which do not add a single grain of value to the Renewed Hope Agenda.
