Okocha emerges Rivers APC chairman

The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has elected Chief Tony Okocha as its new chairman.

This was simply as the brand new opposition occasion chairman declared that the occasion would take over the seat of energy within the state come 2027.

Okocha, the hitherto Caretaker Committee Chairman of the occasion within the state, was elected unopposed alongside different executives through the occasion’s state delegate congress held in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Saturday.

The delegate congress which was performed via voice vote was presided over by Dr Adoye Omalez, who represented the occasion’s nationwide chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje.

Talking after the train, the APC Nationwide Vice Chairman, South-South, Chief Victor Giadom, counseled the occasion delegates for the peaceable method they performed themselves through the state delegate congress.

Giadom said that the peaceable conduct of the state delegate congress demonstrated the truth that APC in Rivers state is one united and indivisible occasion, whilst he referred to as occasion members to assist the brand new govt of the occasion with the intention to transfer the occasion ahead.

In his acceptance speech, the newly elected Rivers State APC Chairman, Chief Tony Okocha, stated that his election has gone a protracted solution to show all those that stated the APC shouldn’t be united and can’t conduct a peaceable election mistaken.

He lauded President Bola Tinubu for his quite a few achievements in workplace to date, particularly the resumption of manufacturing of petroleum merchandise on the Port Harcourt Refinery, mentioning that the occasion will do extra to pave the way in which to win all of the elections in Rivers State.

“If you recognize me very nicely, I’m an emotional individual. Our pleasure is that our members got here on their very own volition. No one cajoled anyone to come back, no one bamboozled anyone to come back right here for the state main election.

“They got here to indicate their love for the All Progressives Congress. I prefer to reassure you I’m positive you might be seeing the indices and the variables already.

“Those that stated APC can not conduct elections lied. APC will conduct and win elections and be in command of authorities in Rivers State. Our enterprise with you supporting us is to make sure that we route out a rudderless authorities in Rivers State.

“By the yr 2027 God protecting us alive, we can have an election in Rivers State and our goal with you is to assist us in order that APC takes the reign of governance in Rivers State”, Okocha said.

Okocha added that with the mandate given to him and different elected govt officers, the occasion is about to seize the state in 2027.

“From Meeting, native authorities areas, Nationwide Meeting, governorship election APC will win in Rivers state and likewise be sure that we return the hero of our time, President Bola Tinubu. Let me once more use this chance to say to Nigerians that we’re on trigger.  The APC is on trigger in Nigeria I’m positive you might have watched or you might have heard what occurred on the Port Harcourt Refinery some days in the past? That is the tip of the iceberg that you’ll start to see.

“We’ve got informed you a lot occasions that Rome was not in-built a day. That the day you plant a seed shouldn’t be the day you’ll harvest it. So in lower than two years we now have began up and operating.  The President has additionally directed that the Kaduna and Warri refineries must be on the identical velocity because the Port Harcourt Refinery. So once we can obtain this I’m positive the issues of Nigeria can be half solved.

“So let me say it to all of us, significantly my colleagues right here, it’s one household. I need to guarantee you of the appreciation of APC in Rivers State that we are going to give you the perfect for the curiosity of all of us. I need to thank the delegation from the Nationwide who’ve come right here and dutifully and profoundly led this course of to this proper.

“Let me on behalf of the occasion thanks in your braveness, dexterity for the love you might have for the occasion. For that reason, you might have left all that you’re doing to come back to Port Harcourt to superintendent this election to its logical conclusion. We’d not have succeeded in concluding this course of if INEC had not come to preside over this election. After all, it’s their accountability to preside over occasion main elections. The chief of the delegation isn’t any different individual than the chief of INEC within the state he got here right here himself.

Different elected positions through the state delegates congress had been that of the Deputy Chairman of the occasion, the State Secretary, the Publicity Secretary, the State Auditor, the State girls chief, the Youth chief, the authorized advisor and Zonal leaders of the occasion within the three senatorial districts of the State.

Our correspondent studies that the state delegate congress was supervised by the state resident electoral Commissioner, Dr Joseph Alalibo.