Supreme court verdict: APC leaders in South-South vow to deflate Wike’s ego

By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja

The Supreme Court judgement affirming Isaac Ogbobula as the authentic caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State chapter, has been described as brilliant and straightforward by the Sourh-Sourh leaders of the party.
This is even as they vowed to deflate the ego of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, will be deflated ahead of the 2023 general election.
The APC leaders equally told the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leadership in Rivers State to await the people’s dirge in 2023’’..
At the meeting of APC South-South stakeholders in Abuja at the weekend, the leaders urged the State chapter of the party to start demonstrating its political muscles and displaying its arsenals.
They South-South leaders of the APC also accused Hon Igo Aguma and his sponsors, who lost at the Nations apex court, of wanting to pull down the Minister of Transportation, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, at all cost
The leaders underscored the clandestine relations of certain individuals with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
They reasoned that some politicians in the state were over ambitious.
In a communiqué read by APC chieftain and Chairperson of Progressive Volunteers Group (PVG), Mrs. Ibifuro Tatua, the leaders advised the chairman and other officials to engage party faithful in new and exciting ways.
According to them, ‘’The 2023 election in Rivers State is another occasion to prove to ourselves that we can do it.
“We need to start planning for APC electoral success in 2023.
“We urge the leadership of the party in Rivers State to join others to take the South-South to new height in 2023’’, they said.
The leaders urged the chairman to ensure that his words and actions promote peace and harmony, because, ’We have a huge task ahead’’.
Specifically, the leaders urged Ogbobula and others to confront misrule, fraud and looting of Rivers State treasury through bogus and meaningless projects.
According to them, ‘The ego of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, will be deflated. The PDP leadership in Rivers State should await the people’s dirge in 2023’’.