•Rivers chapter tackles Fubara over rift with Wike
Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja and Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the purported suspension of its National Chairman, Dr. Abdulahi Ganduje, by the executive committee of the Ganduje Ward in the Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State as devious.
At the same time, the Caretaker Chairman of the APC in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, has tackled Governor Siminalayi Fubara of the state for the continuous rift with his successorand Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.
The legal adviser of Ganduje’s ward, Haladu Gwanjo, had accused the former governor of gross misconduct and misappropriation of public funds during his administration in Kano.
National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, in a statement, yesterday, said the perpetrators were not card-carrying members of APC in the Ward, but individuals affiliated with senior officials and representatives of the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP).
“The purported suspension was the devious act of a group of impersonators of Ward officials out to cause mischief and create confusion in the otherwise peaceful Ganduje Ward chapter of our party.
“The perpetrators of this criminal act are not card carrying members of APC in the Ward but are individuals affiliated with senior officials and representatives of the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP).
“This act procured by officials of the ruling NNPP in Kano is part of the despicable programme of political persecution launched by the administration of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf against Ganduje, a former Governor of Kano State.
“The purported suspension is downright criminal, and of no effect whatsoever. The legitimate Executive Committee of the Ganduje Ward has since denounced the action and reaffirmed Dr. Ganduje as a bonafide member of the Party in the Ward, and in good standing.”
Morka noted that the party had since filed a petition with the Inspector General of Police, requesting an expedited investigation of the matter and that the perpetrators and their sponsors be brought to justice.
He urged party faithful and the general public to disregard reports of the suspension of Ganduje.
Meanwhile, Okocha, in a statement titled: “Our Creed to True Rivers of Possibilities”, insisted that the Fubara government was clueless, and wondered why the governor was shy to espouse publicly the policy thrust of his government like his colleagues from other states.
He said the alleged clueless disposition of the government would lead the state to a fall, saying elders taking sides in a disagreement between two sons instead of reconciling them, was not integrity.
Okocha, who expressed sadness over the happenings in the state said, “What is most disturbing is the fact that Governor Siminalayi Fubara, who ought to be the stabiliser and biggest beneficiary of decorum in the state that he was elected to govern, is on the driver’s seat, in the ear-tingling toxic spews and exchanges that only show off Rivers State as a dead-end of development in the comity of states in Nigeria.
“Gov. Fubara very intentionally and deliberately panders to hitherto pulled out rotten molars from the beautiful political dentition of Rivers State, so well that such known official warlords, whose activities destroyed even their immediate communities in recent past and ipso facto, ought to remain in their cocoon of shame and dishonour, are heavily emboldened energised and funded to promote ethnic jingoism and chauvinism in Rivers State.”
