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Pro-Amaechi APC faction to participate in Rivers LG poll

The party made its position known in a letter to the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Headquarters, Abuja, titled “Re: Position of the Rivers State All Progressives Congress on the forthcoming Local Government Election in Rivers State Vis-a-vis the Judgement in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/987/2024.”

A statement signed by Chairman, APC Rivers State, Emeka Beke, and State Secretary, APC Rivers State, Sam Etetegwung, in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, recalled that following an attempt by some members of the National Working Committee of the APC to displace the duly elected State Executive Committee by purporting to have dissolved the Executive Committee and replaced same with a caretaker committee led by Chief Tony Okocha, the elected State Executive Committee approached the High Court of Rivers State in Suit No.

PHC/3592/CS/2023 (between Sam Sam Etetegwung and Abdullahi Ganduje & Ors), and Suit No. PCH/3735/CS/2023 (between Chief Barnax Ezeboy Enyi & Ors and All Progressives Congress & Ors).

The statement noted that in a judgment, the High Court of Rivers State, presided by Justice S. H. Aprioku, affirmed the validity and subsistence of the Beke-led Executive Committee until 2025.

It further added that the court also set aside the purported caretaker committee of Tony Okocha and declared that the duly elected State Executive Committee (as led by Chief Emeka Beke) is the authentic leadership of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State.