A prominent member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and close associate of former Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has said Nigerians would vote out President Bola Tinubu in 2027. ..Read Full Article
Eze also urged the Rivers State chapter of the party, led by caretaker committee chairman Chief Tony Okocha, to refrain from making disparaging remarks about the former governor. According to Vanguard, Chief Eze’s comments on Sunday were in response to statements attributed to Okocha, who allegedly claimed that there is a plan to position Amaechi’s ally as the party’s leader, allowing Amaechi to use the APC to oppose President Tinubu in the 2027 elections.
Okocha also reportedly criticized Emeka Beke for referring to Amaechi as the party leader in Rivers State and the South-South region, accusing Amaechi of not supporting President Tinubu during his presidential campaign and instead working for the opposition.
Chief Eze cautioned against efforts by certain individuals to tarnish Amaechi’s reputation through smear campaigns and defamatory comments, warning that such actions are intended to diminish his standing in the eyes of Nigerians.
Rebuffing Okocha over his claim that the former Rivers Governor intends to use the Rivers APC Chairman, Chief Emeka Beke to fight Tinubu in 2027, Eze reminded that “the cascade of administrative ineptitude, policy summersaults and multi-layer corruption that has fanned the embers of hyper-unemployment, insecurity, food price hike and more form a veritable mountain of weapons with which Nigerians are armed to fight and oust Tinubu from office in 2027”, stressing that “engaging in avoidable tussles is not in the character of the former Transportation Minister who has never struggled for power”.
He said that those who formed APC could ascertain who truly is the Leader of APC in Rivers state and the South-South, noting that at the formation of APC, Tinubu was made the National Leader of APC while Amaechi emerged as South-South leader and despite the Buhari’s entrance as President, Tinubu clung to his position as national leader.
Eze reminded that the judgment delivered by Justice Sika H. Aprioku of the State High Court in Port Harcourt was comprehensive and covered the field, leaving no vacuum for the appellate Court to turn, given the depth of the reasons given for granting the reliefs sought by the aggrieved party officers.
“Simply, they sought the court’s interpretation of the APC Constitution via Originating Summons on the ground of their unlawful ouster from the various offices into which they were congressionally elected and to which the usurpers claimed title.
“The Court was of the view that the appointment of agent Okocha and his collaborators by Ganduje was ultra vires and in gross violation of the party’s Constitution.
“Beyond being ultra vires of the APC Constitution, the High Court was also clear on its stand about the unlawful appointment of a makeshift committee to replace a democratically elected Executive Committee of the State Chapter on the unsubstantiated allegation of anti-party conduct at the 2023 polls; as same was in clear breach of the right of the reinstated party officials to fair hearing as guaranteed under the Nigerian Constitution and therefore cannot stand. This judgment is not the type that can be upturned at appeal”, he said.
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