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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has vowed to win the 23 chairmanship and 319 councillors seats in the state.
The APC chairman in the State, Chief Tony Okocha, made the vow in Port Harcourt, during the party’s flag-off campaigns for the 2025 local government election.
THISDAY observed that the campaigns attracted thousands of APC members and supporters. It was also observed that chairman candidates were given the APC flags to represent the party at the polls scheduled to hold on August 30, 2025.
Addressing party faithful, Okocha said APC is committed to winning the 23 chairmanship positions and councillors’ seats in the 319 wards of the state.
Okocha, who commended his party members for standing united in the bid to lift the APC onto a place of pride in Rivers politics, said, “What we are doing (today) is a ritual because every system has its processes.
“A lot of you have been itching to go to the field and begin to campaign. Now, as soon as this is consummated, you are free to go to all the nooks and crannies of the 23 local government areas and the 319 wards and campaign,” he said.
Okocha, who had at the RSIEC stakeholders meeting earlier in the month insisted APC would participate in the council polls, repeated his earlier comment that the local council polls conducted on October 5, 2024 was flawed.
He told the gathering, “You will recall that some time ago, there was something that was a charade. APC said we were not going to participate, and we didn’t participate. We assured them that it will go to no issue. It will not work. Did it work? No!
“Today, we are bold, we are happy, we are excited to stand before you to tell you that because the processes are right, the processes put in place by RISEC are right. We are here to support, to follow those processes. Our people have been screened, our people have been declared candidates as chairmen and the councillors.”
He congratulated the candidates, saying “I also congratulate the chairmen, councillors-elect and their deputies. The primaries were seamless. You didn’t hear anybody fight? Because we are an organised political party, we are saying to you, that everything is put in place.
“Now, we are not just going to test the waters. APC, we are not going to test the waters on August 30. We are going to contest elections and win the elections. We are going there to contest this election to win the twenty-three local government areas and to win the 319 wards in Rivers State,” Okocha said.
The former Senator representing Rivers South East, Magnus Abe, who represented Victor Giadom, APC’s National Vice Chairman (South-south), noted the unity and cohesion which had been achieved in the party under the leadership of Okocha, while declaring that any other persons claiming to be leaders of the party in the state are doing so illegally.
Abe said, “Rivers State is united. We are coming together as one, and everybody who has the interest of River State is on board. Anybody who is not on board, going around the television stations to declare themselves as leaders of this party are wasting their time.
“We are together and we are moving. Everybody in Rivers State is welcome to join the APC. Let us work together with the current chairman to deliver the dividends of democracy to the grassroots,” he said.
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