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Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, has alleged that the former Governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi, is working with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2023 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election.
Naija News reports that Okocha, in an interview with Daily Post, said Governor Sim Fubara is also included among those working with Amaechi, stressing that the party has snippets of their night meetings.
Okocha also claimed that Amaechi has a role in the ongoing Rivers APC crisis despite his silence.
He said, “Yes of course, we know where everybody belongs. He’s a member of…he’s working hand in glove with Atiku to unseat the President. We’re Rivers people. We know all that’s happening. We know ourselves. Rotimi, he comes to River State clandestinely, holds meetings at night, we get snippets of those meetings; check all his supporters, those working with him are always with Sim Fubara. Emeka Beke, who is claimed to be a functional Chairman of the party, which does not exist, is an ally of Rotimi Amaechi.
“I was the leader of the party, in his [Amaechi] local government. I don’t like to discuss Amaechi but sometimes I will not shy away from it. Amaechi himself knows that someone like me, I put in everything and laid down my life for the success of the APC. He has the larger chunk of the blame for the fortunes of the APC in Rivers. It is my belief and I’m convinced that he mismanaged the support he had. It is my belief, in capital letters, that he mismanaged the support that was freely given to him and I know he knows that’s the fact.”
Speaking futher on his issues with Amaechi, the APC chieftain said, “Look, what you do is you win some, you lose some. You know, compromises here and there. People don’t join political parties because …I didn’t join APC because I loved Amaechi’s face. I joined the party at that time with him, believing that when we support him to win, at least I’ll be able to support my community to develop, attract projects and all services to my people, and develop myself too. So not because I love him that much. Yes, in the cause of our relationship we may have developed love, but the major thing is interest. So when that interest can no longer be carried together, then we can go separate ways.
“I can remember, you can ask anybody, I told him I said oga, ‘let me tell you, for your information, the reason why I’m in this party is because of you. I said, any day my interest is no longer protected I’ll leave’. I told him that severally and when it became obvious that my interest was no longer protected, I resigned from the leadership six months before the presidential election and the state shook. When I resigned, he never called me.
“So back to what we are saying, it’s because a lot of them have lost the grip of the party, they are in a serious quagmire. They don’t know what to do, other than to align with Governor Fubara to see how they can use Rivers High Court to stop what we are doing. But take note, Rivers High Court is just the inferior court to, of course, to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.”
