With the visit of 16 members of the APC National
Working Committee NWC led by National Chairman Alhaji Dr.Umar Ganduje that
inaugurated new Executive for All Progressives Congress Rivers State Chapter on
Friday 13th of December, 2024 all is now set to reposition the party to gather
her tatters come 2027 general elections.
Since Chief Tony Okocha took over as the substantive
Chairman of the party in Rivers, he has never stopped to announce his
intentions which is to use the ballot boxes to oust the incumbent
administration of Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Rivers State led by Sir
Siminalayi Fubara come 2027.
Just like on November 2023 when he took over as
Chairman of 7-man Caretaker Committee of Rivers State, he quickly brought back
some members of the party who left due to one reason or the other. Senator
Magnus Ngei Abe who defected to Social Democratic Party SDP later
returned to APC, Elders of the party like Elder Chidi Wihioka,
former Member Federal House of Representatives also returned to APC in Rivers
State. Engr Sampson Ngirigabara is one man that is reserved but has
grassroot political wisdom especially in his Rivers South East Senatorial
District where he hails from.
How did Chief Tony Okocha emerge as the substantive
state Chairman of APC despite having a job already as Rivers State
Representatives at the 7th Management of Niger Delta Development Commission-
NDDC?
It was obvious that he sustained unequivocally in
challenging Gov. Siminalayi Fubara’s administration as he restored confidence
in APC in the state. He used his position in NDDC like a sitting Governor where
he took decisions in allocating contracts to communities in Rivers State. This
attracted more people to APC with Chief Tony Okocha holding sway as state
Chairman of APC. To the leadership of APC at the national headquarters Abuja no
other choice of a political fighter in Rivers State that can wrestle political
power from Sir Siminalayi Fubara in 2027 except Chief Tony Okocha. To them,
whatever the logic in zoning or the political permutations in 2027, what Alhaji
Umar Abdullahi Ganduje and his National Executives want is victory of capturing
state power in Rivers State. And Chief Tony Okocha is APC’s strongest a
governorship candidate come 2027 governorship election
In 2015 Nyesom Wike played same political script,
where he took over from a fellow Ikwerre ethnic group Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi
without minding zoning arrangement in the state. In 2019 he used insiders’
politiical bedfellows to weaken oppisition in APC until he succeeded in making
sure APC in Rivers State was consumed in internal crises using Supreme Court
judgement to remove APC from the ballot box in 2019.
Therefore, Chief Tony Okocha is now the probable
governorship aspirant waiting for the lifting of the political Time Table in
2026 begining with Political Party Primary elections for elective positions be
it governorship and others.
By then he must have steered the party to an enviable
state of stability.
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