He spoke at a news briefing in Port Harcourt on Saturday while reacting to recent claims by Martin Amaewhule that he and his colleagues are still members of the PDP.

Recall that a Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Peter Lifu, last Friday dismissed a defection suit instituted against the Amaewhule-led lawmakers by the Action Peoples Party, saying the suit was not filed within the 14-day period allowed by law.

But Beke who recently regained his position as the state APC Chairman by Justice Sika Aprioku of the Rivers State High Court that the party’s National Working Committee was wrong to have dissolved the Beke-led state executive and replaced it with the Tony Okocha-led Caretaker Committee describe the denial by the 27 lawmakers as shameful.

He stated, “I want to put it on record that those 27 members of the House of Assembly are still members of the APC. The law is clear on defection. They cannot run away from the truth because we all know and saw it when they defected to our party.

“They are members of our party and we have accepted them fully as key stakeholders of the APC. It is very obvious, evident and on record that in several fora, Martin Amawgule and 26 others publicly defected from the PDP to the APC.

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