Erstwhile national publicity secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, (nPDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has lambasted the deputy national secretary of APC, Mr. Festus Fuanters, over his stance on the reinstatement of Chief Emeka Beke as APC chairman in Rivers State.
There has been legal tussle for the leadership of APC in Rivers State between the Beke-led State Working Committee and that of Mr. Tony Okocha.
Beke’s camp is perceived to be loyal to former Transportation Minister, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, while Okocha is said to be loyal to Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Nyesom Wike.
However a Rivers State HighCourt, in its judgement, reinstated the Emeka Beke-led leadership of the APC recently.
Reacting, APC Deputy National Secretary, Fuanters, however dismissed 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 inveighing 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 judgement of court to save her from a looming crisis which may shake her to her very foundation and allow Emeka Beke and his congressionally elected team to seamlessly serve out their term as ordered by court.