By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The factional Chairman of the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Chief Emeka Beke, has urged the National leadership of the party to halt the planned Primaries scheduled by the Chief Tony Okocha -led group of the party ahead of the Local Council polls billed for August 30 ,2025 .
This is as he called on the Professor Nentawe Yilwatda-led National Executive Council NEC of the Party to recognize him as the authentic leader of the APC in Rivers State.
At an interactive session with the Media after submitting a formal petition backing his claims, Beke noted that his demands are supported by a subsisting Court judgment delivered by the State’s High Court.
According to him, the said ruling by the court explicitly affirmed him as the rightful Chairman of the APC in Rivers State.
” In a well-considered judgment, the High Court of Rivers State ,Port Harcourt Division presided over by Hon Justice S.H. Aprioku, set aside the purported dissolution of our Executive, and declared that the Emeka Beke-led State Executive Committee remains the valid and subsisting leadership of the APC in Rivers State until October 2025″, Beke quoted part of the said court verdict.
He maintained that he remains the duly elected and recognized Chairman of the APC in the State, the High Court judgment having not been overturned by any higher Court of competent jurisdiction
Chief Beke in his petition ,urged the National leadership of the party to accord him all the legal recognition as ordered by the Court, including conceding to his leadership the right to conduct the party’s primaries ahead of the local polls in the State
“We respectively bring to your notice the judgment of the High Court of Rivers State, Port Harcourt Division, delivered by Hon. Justice S.H. Aprioku ,which affirmed the subsistence of the tenure of the Chief Emeka Beke-led Executive Committee of APC ,Rivers State, and the judgment of Hon Justice Obomanu of the High Court Justice Rivers state in suit No PHC/3859/CS/2024 –Okwu Joe brown Ndike &Ors vAll Progressive Congress &Anor ,which invalidated the purported election of the Chief Tony Okocha -led Executive Committee of APC.
Please find attached the judgment Order in Suit No PHC/3859/CS/2024 –Okwu Joe brown Ndike &Ors v All Progressive Congress & Anor.
” We are members of the State Executive Committee of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Rivers State Chapter, and write in that capacity.
“We hereby bring to your attention the fact that following the attempt to unlawfully dissolve the Rivers State leadership structure of the All Progressive Congress sometime in 2023 ,we, through the State Secretary, Sam Etetegwung, filed Suit No PHC/3592/CS/2023 (between Sam Sam Etetegwung vs His Excellency Abdullahi Ganduje &Ors) challenging the validity and propriety of the said dissolution at the High Court of Rivers state ,Port Harcourt Division .
“We humbly appeal to the National Chairman to use his good offices and suspend the scheduled Local Government Primaries of the APC ,Rivers State by the Chief Tony Okocha-led Executive Committee, and direct the Chief Emeka Beke-led Executive Committee to superintend the entire process, the Chief Emeka Beke led Executive Committee being the duly recognized by law”, the petition reads in part.
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