Former Minister under Buhari plotting to hijack APC to fight President Tinubu in 2027
Tony Okocha, the recently removed Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has leveled serious accusations against former Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi.
Okocha alleges that Amaechi is scheming to take control of the party in Rivers State with the aim of opposing President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 elections.
Okocha, speaking to journalists in Abuja, expressed his determination to thwart Amaechi and his alleged ally, Emeka Beke, asserting that he will not allow them to undermine Tinubu’s leadership.
His comments came in response to a recent court ruling on August 15, in which a High Court in Port Harcourt dismissed the Okocha-led caretaker committee and reinstated Emeka Beke as the APC Chairman.
However, Okocha said: “We imagine how a person of low academic qualifications can preside over a meeting that some of us would attend but the APC leader then said they wanted somebody who had a street boy mentality.
“But the truth was that he wanted a surrogate, a stooge who would do his bidding. We fought but the APC leader was then a minister and his vestiges were here as leaders of the party.
“At the presidential primaries of the APC, Beke was the person who led the Rivers delegation of 56 delegates to vote for Rotimi Amaechi. That was how they scored 56 from the state.
“There is an intention to throw up Amaechi’s man and then he (Amaechi) becomes the APC leader and then uses the APC to fight Mr President in 2027. We will never allow that.”
