The comments credited to the Minister of Transportation over the part of the state where the next Governor of Rivers State should come from is still generating reactions in the state, more especially from members of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.
While an APC stalwart, Ibiso Nwuche, described the zoning of the governorship ticket of the party to riverine as canvassed by Rotimi Amaechi as uncalled for because the upland/riverine dichotomy does not exist anymore, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Abbot Ogbobula, thinks otherwise.
The recent Supreme Court ruling in favour of the Minister of Transportation-led faction of the APC in Rivers State appears not to have galvanized the thought of the party faithful in one direction following the disapproval that greeted Amaechi’s comment over zoning at Ogu Bolo Local Government Area recently.
Former State Assembly member, Nwuche, said that what the party needs now was not the zoning agenda but the repositioning of the party.
Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Ogbobula, said he was not surprised that those who have benefitted the most from Amaechi’s disposition to equity were the ones complaining against the Minister’s consistent support for power shift.
He wondered how a party that is described as a social club would be the party that the ruling PDP in the state will be afraid of.
Nwuche urged the Minister of Transportation and Senator Magnus Abe to sincerely reconcile their differences because Rivers people are the worse hit due to the weak opposition in the state.