The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it doesn’t know the current political party of the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Ameachi, adding that the former governor do not identify with APC again.
Ameachi, in 2022 contested presidential primary election with the incumbent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and lost. He has, however, stayed away from the activities of the party since then.
But when asked on Tuesday, Rivers state chapter of the APC led by Chief Tony Okocha, while speaking with newsmen, specifically declared that Ameachi had warned the state Secretary of APC never to send an invite for any meeting to him again.
The APC chairman also denied that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike controls the party in Rivers State.
Okocha said: On the issue of Ameachi I have no question to answer. I was Chief of Staff to Rotimi Ameachi, recall that at one point he got into the Law School and from the one year in Law School he became incommunicado. You also aware that after the presidential primary election he disappeared I to the tin air. So whether he still a party member or not I wouldn’t know because all the meetings we called, I give you example of a meeting we alled for all the former governors and ministers, he (Ameachi) sent a message to the Secretary of the party and warned him never ever dare send him a message about the party again. So when you meet him ask him where he belong, for me I don’t know where he belong.”
Reacting to question on whether FCT Minister Nyesom Wike influence decisions of Rivers State APC, Okocha said: “when I hear this I laugh because Wike is a member of PDP, unrepentant PDP. We are APC here. Will anybody suggest that because Mr. Wike is a minister under our government of APC we should be at dagger with him?
“Wike doesn’t attend our meeting, I have briefed you here, we have held meetings of stakeholders, Wike was never there. So at what point does he influence APC in Rivers State? His influence, as much as you know, is because he is minister under an APC government, so we can’t be in enmity with him. But to say that he influence us, how? What does it do, he pays our bills? Or he attends our meetings? The answer is no.”
