Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, who was the National publicity secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has slammed the deputy national secretary of the APC, Mr. Festus Fuanters, for his stand on the reinstatement of Chief Emeka Beke as APC chairman in Rivers State.
The leadership of APC in Rivers State has been contested legally between the State Working Committee led by Beke and that led by Mr. Tony Okocha.
Beke’s camp is believed to be loyal to former Transportation Minister, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, while Okocha is said to be loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Nyesom Wike.
Recently, the APC leadership headed by Emeka Beke was reinstated by the Rivers State High Court in its decision.
Fuanters, APC’s Deputy National Secretary, responded with a dismissal of the judgement as not binding on the party.
Responding, Eze said the statement by the deputy national secretary points to the fact that the National Working Committee of the APC is “avast to democracy, rule of law and a proactive, independent judiciary and is aggressively committed now than ever to destroying the APC and other democratic institutions within the polity with his abrasive tendencies.”
The party chieftain said the deputy national secretary presented himself as a better residual of legal knowledge than the court which did an exhaustive legal work and displayed excellence and sound logical reasoning in its judgement, stressing that this arrogant display of barefaced ignorance puts a doubt on his qualification as a lawyer.
He expressed disappointment over the presence of the likes of Victor Giadom, “a major beneficiary of the sacrifices of party faithful in Rivers who suffered a gamut of dehumanizing treatment and lost lives and limbs during elections, in the congregation of five political hustlers out of 25 that make up the APC NWC, who are obviously playing the script of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, describing the outing as a show of shame and a display of the lowest sense of decency expected from his person.”
Eze cautioned “Ganduje and his irks to be wary of inviting the APC into a situation in which the party will be reckoned with as a group dissident to lawful order and decisions of courts, noting that such narrative from a ruling party spells doom for the judiciary and the country.”
He urged the party leadership to respect the court’s decision to save her from a crisis that could shake her to her very foundation, and allow Emeka Beke and his congressionally elected team to serve out their mandate without any trouble.
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