You cannot join us through the back door—APC tells Uche Secondus, former PDP chairman
The Rivers state caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Tony Okocha, has told former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Uche Secondus, former minister of transportation, Abiye Sekibo and other leaders of PDP in the state that they cannot join the APC through the back door.
Okocha handed down the warning in Abuja on Friday while reacting to Thursday’s media briefing by some PDP chieftains who declared support for President Bola Tinubu and Governor Sim Fubara
Okocha described the Sekibo-led PDP group as crisis merchants, adding that if the group felt concerned, it would have been honourable for them to seek solutions to the problems rather than constituting themselves as snitches and fifth columnists in the state.
According to the caretaker committee chairman, the APC was open to accepting new members from other parties into its fold, based on the mandate to his committee by the APC National Working Committee, NWC, but warned that such a move must be done legally.
While berating the pledged support for the President during the Press Conference in Port Harcourt, Okocha said: “If the mid-night pseudo lovers of Mr President as shown in the text under critique, now are convinced that President is abundantly fit and proper to preside over Nigeria and that his ten months in office has provided Renewed Hope for an eldorado for Nigerians and choose to recant their hitherto unsavoury and unprintable toxics against President, they should follow the proper channels allowed for porting or decamping to a new party.
“This approach of brow-beating and blackmailing they intend to use is not fashionable at all.
“No sane host tolerates a Guest who attempts to enter his/her house, through the window when the door is open.
“When have they repented and withdrawn their suits in court, challenging the Powers of the resident to mediate in the political crisis in Rivers State?
“Have they repented from emboldening Governor Fubara to disrespect Mr. President by refusing to implement all the indices on the 8-point Presidential Proclamation, as panacea to the political crisis in Rivers State, which by their actions, they have continued to fuel?”
Okocha said the fortune of the party had continued to increase in the state, challenging the Rivers state governor Fubara to test his popularity by conducting a Local Government election in the state to know his political strength.
