APC Has Better Chance To Win In Akwa Ibom, Rivers - Oyegun
John Odigie-Oyegun, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, said that the party has better chance of in the disputed Rivers governorship election.
Odigie-Oyegun stated that the APC successes in the 2015 general elections have changed the political landscape in the South-South, especially Rivers state.
The APC chairman added that he was confident in the party’s chances in Akwa-Ibom gubernatorial rerun.
The ruling party boss made this disclosure when he received a delegation of the NADECO-forum and Pro-democracy groups in the United Kingdom (1992-1999) led by John Filani, Leadership reports.
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“With the appointment of the former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi and the Minister for Niger-Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Usani from Cross Rivers all from the South-South, the combination of these forces is creating a new dynamics in Rivers State as against the forces that forced us out in the first place which were by sheer brute force. This is no longer applicable neither in Rivers or Akwa-Ibom state.
“With the appointment of the former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi and the Minister for Niger-Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Usani from Cross Rivers all from the South-South, the combination of these forces is creating a new dynamics in Rivers State as against the forces that forced us out in the first place which were by sheer brute force. This is no longer applicable neither in Rivers or Akwa-Ibom state.
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“With respect to Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, I want to tell you that we are strongly determined and there is hardly any doubt. The former governor of Akwa-Ibom’s motto was ‘what money cannot solve, more money can solve it’. I think that this has been very much at work but I have no doubt in my mind, factions or no factions, that is irrelevant.
“I have stuck my neck out for Umana Umana because looking at all those who wanted that office, he was the only one who has the grits and the guts to take on the very murderous situation that existed in Akwa-Ibom state and if you ask me, I am more confident of winning Akwa-Ibom than any other state in the South-South. We are going to win, that is almost a certainty,” he added.
Source: Legit.ng
