Ntebri, Port Harcourt
The Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress has disassociated itself from the team of the former Rivers State Governor and now Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, accusing him of trying to hijack the state structure of the party.
Speaking yesterday at the chapter office of the APC, the chapter chairman, Mr. Ibiamu Ikanya lamented over the none provision of funds by candidates for the elections, he accused the former Governor of collecting all the funds meant for financing the party structures in the state.
He said "They came from Abuja and have hijacked our state structure, the candidates for these elections are suppose to provide funds to the party for the election, but they rather remitted the funds to the account of the former Governor". "We are not in any way affiliated to the camp of Minister, we can't continue like this, they must be respect for due process in our party.
Meanwhile the former Governor denied the allegations and accused the chairman of been high on the money he collected from the PDP. He said "we know what the PDP in the state are capable of, may be this is one of their many doings, if Ikanya thinks I collected any money from the candidates, then he should come and get it. 'which money is he talking about, he continued 'yes I asked them to collapse their respective structures to mine, but I didn't collect any money from them'.
The former Governor also debunked rumors of him trying to sideline other key party stakeholders from participating in the financial aspects of the elections.
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