Abe to Amaechi: No individual can choose a governor for Rivers people

Former Senator representative Rivers South-East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Magnus Ngei Abe, has said the statement credited to the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi that the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress has been zoned to the riverine part of the state was his personal opinion.

He described the Minister’s declaration as a Greek gift to the riverine people and a poisoned chalice which is bound to fail.

Abe said this during an interactive session with members of the party in Port Harcourt, where he stressed that zoning the governorship ticket of the party is a process.

According to him: “The people that are being zoned in must understand why it is zoned to them and the people that are being zoned out, must also understand why they are being zoned out.

“If you just stand and carry a microphone and begin to zone and unzone, everybody knows what you are doing. And so long as it is singularly done, I want to stand here and say that it will not work.”

The APC Chieftain equally opined that the Minister intended to deceive the riverine people by making an uncoordinated promise to them without first laying a proper foundation which is the basis of victory, and wondered how one individual intended to pit a section of the state against the others.

He said, “I want to stand here and say that the riverine people I know are smarter than those who are trying to use them. It is a poisoned chalice, it is a Greek gift, and it will profit nothing because it is not well-intentioned.”

He assured Rivers people that no single tribe, group or individual can produce the governor of the state single-handedly without the direct involvement of other parts of the state. Punch