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Accept responsibility for crisis in Rivers APC, Abe tells Amaechi

Chris Anucha, Port Harcourt

The senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Magnus Ngei Abe, has urged the Minister of Transportation,  Chibuike  Amaechi, to swallow his pride and  accept responsibility for his actions, which  he  said,  plunged  Rivers  All Progressives Congress (APC) into  unending  crisis.

Senator Abe spoke  in Port Harcourt, Rivers State,  through  his media aide, Parry Saroh Benson.

According to him, rather than face the reality, the Minister  has been  busy, waging needless wars  against everybody, including the INEC, National Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu.

Abe described Amaechi’s comments against him  at the party’s rally in Port Harcourt as very insulting, childish and an attempt to distract  people’s attention from the real issue.

The Senator  explained  that neither INEC, nor the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, was  responsible for the situation Rivers APC  found itself.

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Abe said: “It is unfortunate that the Honourable Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, rather than acknowledge his actions which  dragged the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State to the edge,  has continued to stage an unnecessary personal battle against everybody.  He has simply refused to look in the mirror and acknowledge that it is his own actions as  a leader,  that  dragged the party to where it is.

“It is not the INEC Chairman, not Nyesom Wike, it is not myself but the actions of the APC leader in Rivers, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, that has dragged the party to where it is.

As a leader, he would have made some compromises to resolve the matter, the choice to fight- to -finish was that of Rotimi Amaechi.

“Secondly, I feel insulted when Amaechi says Nyesom Wike is using me. With all due respect to the Governor of  Rivers State, he is not in any way,  my superior. He is my junior at the Bar and in politics.

“I have tried as much as possible, for us to keep our dirty linens inside, Amaechi should not open his mouth again and say Wike is using me.  He, Amaechi, could not use me as a governor, against my principles and beliefs, so, how can Wike, in a different party, use me?”.

“Today, he is telling people he did not want Wike to be governor because he is from Ikwerre. But after Wike became governor,  he still went ahead to nominate himself as Minister, why didn’t he stop himself since Wike is from Ikwerre?

Abe, however,   said   that the only chance left to put APC on the ballot is for the court to accept the direct primaries,  which  he said, was supervised by the State Party Executive.

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