Emeka Beke
The Chief Emeka Beke-led All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) insisting that the Federal High Court’s judgment cannot stop the October 5 local government elections in the state.
Beke, in the letter dated October 1 and addressed to the INEC’s National Chairman, said that the suit, which the court relied on to give the orders, was filed by Chief Tony Okocha, whom he described as an unknown member of the party.
Explaining further, he said some members of the National Working Committee of the APC made an attempt to displace the duly elected State Executive Committee of the party in the state by dissolved the Executive Committee and replacing it with a caretaker committee led by one Chief Tony Okocha.
But he said: “The elected State Executive Committee approached the High Court of Rivers State. In a considered judgement, the High Court of Rivers State presided over by Hon. Justice S.H. Aprioku affirmed the validity and subsistence of our Executive Committee until 2025.
( News Express)
