Immediate past Senator representing Rivers South East Senatorial District, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has described as unacceptable, the announcement by the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi on the congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State.
Amaechi had reportedly announced to his supporters shortly after his inauguration in Abuja by President Muhammadu Buhari that there would be congress in the state without cognisance to the existing judicial pronouncement on subject matter and the need for consultation as it affects the interest of party members.
Abe spoke at the weekend when members of the APC Visionary Media Team paid him a courtesy visit at his residence in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
He noted that the Minister of Transportation rather than concentrate on achieving the needed contribution to national development is creating another avenue for tension and crisis in the political structure of the party, demonstrating same unruly behavior that brought the party in Rivers state to a fiasco.
Abe urged the minister to demonstrate his sincerity of rebuilding the party by admitting his faults and respect the interest, rights and feelings of all members of the party, adding that the selfish interest of the Minister had led the party to where it is today in the state.
The senator, an advocate of internal democracy, justice, equity and fair play appealed to members to be resolute and more committed to the growth of APC in the state without fear or favour to an individual to the detriment of others who have duly paid their dues and are registered members of the party.
He assured the group that even if he is out of office, he is still a politician that is committed to the ideologies of the party, insisting that what they need is peace, inclusiveness, progress and commitment of all members to move the party forward.
Abe further said: "Look at our party here today in Rivers state, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on assumption of office as Minister of Transportation, the first thing he did was to announce Congress in Rivers state and I ask myself, this was the same kind of behaviour that led the party to where it is.
"Everybody in Nigeria knows that the origin of the crisis in Rivers APC was from the Congress and how the Congress was handled and there are Judicial pronouncements of the Congress which he ignored and led the party to ignore and we have all kept quiet in the hope that by keeping quiet we will create room for resolution of some of these challenges so the party can move forward.
Instead, he has become more crazy in his challenge to the rights, feelings and interest of others within the same political party. How do we do that and expect to make progress.
What kind of Congress, is he the Chairman of the party, is he the National Working Committee, is he the Court, what gives him the power to come and announce Congress on the day he was inaugurated as Minister.
Rather than address the issues of the country and the issues of his Ministry, the first thing he could do was to reopen the sourest point in the heart of members of the party. And it is on that basis that party members have been deprived of every benefits. Is that how to grow a political family, is that how to grow politics. We will not accept that congress.
I just want to say to you people that sometimes when we keep quiet out of respect for the party and out of respect given for our own past and out of understanding on the knowledge that without justice there can be no peace and without peace there can be no progress.
We must all recommit ourselves to the need for peace in the party and the way forward to get peace in the party is by ensuring that there is justice, fairness in the party so that everybody feel free to realise and gather support
Immediate past Senator representing Rivers South East Senatorial District, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has described as unacceptable, the announcement by the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi on the congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State.
Amaechi had reportedly announced to his supporters shortly after his inauguration in Abuja by President Muhammadu Buhari that there would be congress in the state without cognisance to the existing judicial pronouncement on subject matter and the need for consultation as it affects the interest of party members.
Abe spoke at the weekend when members of the APC Visionary Media Team paid him a courtesy visit at his residence in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
He noted that the Minister of Transportation rather than concentrate on achieving the needed contribution to national development is creating another avenue for tension and crisis in the political structure of the party, demonstrating same unruly behavior that brought the party in Rivers state to a fiasco.
Abe urged the minister to demonstrate his sincerity of rebuilding the party by admitting his faults and respect the interest, rights and feelings of all members of the party, adding that the selfish interest of the Minister had led the party to where it is today in the state.
The senator, an advocate of internal democracy, justice, equity and fair play appealed to members to be resolute and more committed to the growth of APC in the state without fear or favour to an individual to the detriment of others who have duly paid their dues and are registered members of the party.
He assured the group that even if he is out of office, he is still a politician that is committed to the ideologies of the party, insisting that what they need is peace, inclusiveness, progress and commitment of all members to move the party forward.
Abe further said: "Look at our party here today in Rivers state, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on assumption of office as Minister of Transportation, the first thing he did was to announce Congress in Rivers state and I ask myself, this was the same kind of behaviour that led the party to where it is.
"Everybody in Nigeria knows that the origin of the crisis in Rivers APC was from the Congress and how the Congress was handled and there are Judicial pronouncements of the Congress which he ignored and led the party to ignore and we have all kept quiet in the hope that by keeping quiet we will create room for resolution of some of these challenges so the party can move forward.
Instead, he has become more crazy in his challenge to the rights, feelings and interest of others within the same political party. How do we do that and expect to make progress.
What kind of Congress, is he the Chairman of the party, is he the National Working Committee, is he the Court, what gives him the power to come and announce Congress on the day he was inaugurated as Minister.
Rather than address the issues of the country and the issues of his Ministry, the first thing he could do was to reopen the sourest point in the heart of members of the party. And it is on that basis that party members have been deprived of every benefits. Is that how to grow a political family, is that how to grow politics. We will not accept that congress.
I just want to say to you people that sometimes when we keep quiet out of respect for the party and out of respect given for our own past and out of understanding on the knowledge that without justice there can be no peace and without peace there can be no progress.
We must all recommit ourselves to the need for peace in the party and the way forward to get peace in the party is by ensuring that there is justice, fairness in the party so that everybody feel free to realise and gather support
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