Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP) and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has urged the newly-reinstalled Rivers APC executive committee led by Emeka Beke to ensure that the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, joins the national ruling party.
Eze also pleaded with the Beke-led State Executive Committee to formalize the membership of the 27 lawmakers led by the reportedly misguided Martins Amaewhule, in obedience to President Bola Tinubu’s directive “that we should not discard anybody from joining APC.”
Eze made this statement on Tuesday in reaction to the judgment of a State High Court in Port Harcourt, which affirmed the position of Emeka Beke and his team as the lawfully recognized state chairman and executive committee members, respectively, of the APC in the state.
Recall that in November 2023, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC, purportedly announced through its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the dissolution of the State Executive Council of the Party and constituted a 7-man caretaker committee headed by Tony Okocha.
Dissatisfied with the unsubstantiated action of the APC’s NWC, Beke, an ally of Chibuike Amaechi, and his team of congressionally elected State Executive Committee members 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 APC constitution, 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