Recall that in November of 2023, the National Working Committee of the APC, purportedly announced through its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Moka, the dissolution of the State Executive Council of the Party in Rivers State and illegally constituted a 7-man caretaker committee headed by one Tony Okocha, a dissent element and notorious jobber.
The development was widely viewed as a stratagem to surreptitiously hand the leadership of the Rivers APC and other party structures to the FCT Minister and former Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, whose abnormal craving for power and crude indulgences to hold on to it is sickening and threatens democratic institutions in the Nigerian clime.
Dissatisfied by the unsubstantiated action of the APC’s NWC, Chief Emeka Beke, an ally of Rt. Hon. Barr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and his team of congressionally elected State Executive Committee filed a suit seeking the court’s intervention over their unjust dissolution.
Justice Sika who presided over the case ruled that the appointment of Tony Okocha and six others was unjustifiable and in gross violation of the constitution of the APC, noting that there was no valid reason for the NWC to dissolve the democratically elected state executive committee led by Chief Emeka Beke, whose four-year term still subsists.
Eze highlighted further that Justice Aprioku issued a perpetual injunction against the Okocha-led caretaker committee and reinstated the Chief Emeka Beke-led executive as the authentic executive of the party in the state.
Eze commended the court for restraining the national leadership of the APC from further recognizing the Okocha-led executive and compelled them to henceforth begin to recognize the Beke-led elected executive
Eze pleads with the National Working Committee of the party to respect the Court judgment and accord Beke's Exco all the necessary support to move the party forward as we will not tolerate anymore any undue interferences of Rivers State APC affairs particularly given offices to none members of APC like Tony Okocha and his misguided co-Travellers who are not registered members of the party.
Eze expresses gladness for how the court slammed the unprincipled Independent National Electoral Commission, for supporting the desolation of democratically elected executives of the APC, cautioning that leadership of political parties must learn to obey their constitution and stop acting recklessly and in impunity in managing their party. I pray and hope that INEC will respect herself and learn from this judgment.
Eze pleads with the Beke-led State Exco to formally formalize the membership of the erstwhile Lawmakers led by one misguided Martins AMAEWHULE in obedience to President Tinubu's directive that we should not discard anybody from joining APC.
Now that sanity is brought back to APC in Rivers State, Eze pleads with the APC Rivers State leadership to lobby Governor Sim Fubara to join the party instead of any other political party as we are ready to assist him in any way possible to move the State forward
Further reacting to the judgment, Eze said the development has sent shockwaves down the spines of FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and his collaborators at the APC National Working Committee as their trajectory of bribing judicial officers failed in the situation.
Describing the verdict as a victory for the entire Rivers State and a disgrace to all undemocratic forces within and outside Rivers State Eze called on the Governor of Rivers State to leverage the court judgment to align with the party and its development objectives to realign the state on a better pedestal.
Eze describes the threat by Tony Okocha to appeal the judgment as the Joke of the year as this is just a step of a drowning man looking for anything to hold on as his dubious means of duping Nyesom Wike and the party leadership for funds to continue to carry out his dubious activities in Rivers State using the name of the party has come to an end
Eze urged all and sundry to keep faith with Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi,
the undisputed Leader of APC in the entire Niger Delta region and called on security agencies to keep Tony Okocha and company at bay and be on the lookout for their arrest should they parade themselves as caretaker committee of Rivers APC going forward.
