Jonathan Nwokpor
Under the auspices of the Concerned Members of the All Progressives Congress, a few APC members have chastised the Martins Amaewhule-led faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly for supposedly abandoning the party.
ZINGTIE remembers that several lawmakers, led by Speaker Amaewhule, left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in favour of the African National Congress (APC) following the political upheaval currently roiling the state.
On the House floor in December of 2023, Amaewhule declared the 27 legislators’ defection.
Governor Siminalayi Fubara, who insisted that their method of defection was unlawful, recently declared their seats empty.
The MPs have reportedly reversed course and declared they are still PDP members.
Amaewhule and the other 26 MPs are still PDP members, according to a ruling made on Monday by the Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt, which supports this.
In response, the APC faction warned the party’s leadership not to accept the lawmakers, branding them as “fair-weather politicians,” in a statement signed by its president, Ezegwu Thomas.
The statement reads, “We are compelled to address a pressing matter that threatens the very fabric of our great party. Recent events have led us to sound a note of caution and vigilance to all loyal members of our party.”
“As you may be aware, some members of the Rivers State House of Assembly publicly defected from the PDP to our esteemed party. However, in a bizarre twist, they have since denied any affiliation with our party, leaving us with no choice but to categorize them as political prostitutes with no allegiance to any political organization.
“We view this development with great concern and warn our members to exercise extreme caution in dealing with these individuals. Their antecedents show a pattern of political opportunism, and we fear that their presence within our ranks could spell doom for our party’s unity and progress.
“We caution our members that these individuals, who have no qualms about denying their own party affiliation, will not hesitate to do the same to our party and even our esteemed President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu when it suits their interests. We must not let our guards down and allow such fair-weather politicians to infiltrate our ranks”.
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