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Ikenga reiterated that the candidates were neither given tickets nor known to the National Working Committee of the APC.

According to him, they are loyalists of former Rivers Governor, Rotimi Amaechì, who belong to the camp of the Emeka Beke-led APC faction, whose sack was nullified two months ago by a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt.

He said, “For your information, those candidates in Amaechi’s group who claim they are running the election on the ticket of the APC are not members of our party.

“The APC leadership does not recognise them. So who sold the forms to them? Where did they get the forms to go through the primaries and set up the procedure for their emergence?”

The development comes barely three days after the reinstated APC chairman wrote to the Independent National Electoral Commission insisting that the judgment of the Federal High Court cannot stop the Saturday’s local government elections in the state.

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