Former member of the House of Representatives, Hon Igo Aguma, has accused the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, of manipulating the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for his selfish purposes.
Hon Aguma, who was spoke during the APC stakeholders’ meeting organised by the Port-Harcourt City Local Government Area (PHALGA) chapter of the party over the weekend in Port Harcourt, said peaceful resolution of the crises rocking the party would be possible if Amaechi drop selfish interest.
According to him, only direct mode of congresses would be accepted by him and those who are on the same line of thought with him but regretted that the leader of the party in the state, Rotimi Amaechi, was deliberately undermining the interest of other stakeholders in the party.
He said he would continue to resist any form of oppression, noting that the crisis rocking the state chapter of the party would be over if the right things were done, and that the party must be rescued from the hands of the former governor of the state.
Aguma, who was a two-time member of the House of Representatives, called on the national leadership of the party to take a special look at the APC in Rivers state, maintaining that it was currently an abandoned ship.
“We are calling on the National Executive Council of the party to take a special look into Rivers state. We were up until now, like an abandoned ship. We’ve decided to start doing things by ourselves and to call the attention of the NEC to our plight in Rivers state.
“Just one man cannot manipulate the party for his personal benefit. Ask yourself why we did not do direct primaries. Everybody knows it is the solution for every party that has a series of court cases. That was offered to us as party, but our leader rejected it.
“Direct primary that we know will produce the most popular candidates. And of course direct primaries will definitely produce a candidate of his (Amaechi’s) choice because he has people like us aligning with him but he refused, because he is appropriating the party for his own selfish gain.
“He is a minister today in spirit of the fact that we failed woefully in Ikwerre LGA. It was zero votes. Even though he brought in (Biokpomabo) Awara, he brought zero to the table,” Aguma asserted.
Further, he insisted that the APC “is collapsing on his head. The entire world now knows what he is doing. He says he is the leader, but the party has collapsed.”
