Amaechi’s APC Faction Suspends Magnus Abe, Others, Asks Nat’l Leadership To Expel Them

A faction of the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Saturday, suspended three of its members – Senator Magnus Abe, Hon. Igo Aguma, Barr. Wogu Boms and one Livingstone Wechie

The aforementioned were suspended for alleged anti-party activities and disobedience to the party’s constitution.

Abe represented Rivers-South-East senatorial district in the 8th Senate. He lost the seat to Senator Barry Mpigi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) due to the crisis rocking the Rivers APC.

They were suspended by the faction of the Rivers APC loyal to the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi.

Announcing their suspension in a statemen on Saturday was Isaac Abbot Ogbobula, the chairman of the party’s State Executive Caretaker Committee.

Ogbobula noted that they were suspended at the ward and local government levels of the party.

Ogbobula subsequently recommended Abe and others’ expulsion to the national leadership of the APC.

The statement reads: “We met and looked at the state of the party in the state, x-rayed and reviewed some issues towards moving the party forward and cleaning up of the party and to take disciplinary measures against members of the party, who caused infractions on the party.

“We received communication from some local government areas which came to them from the ward level. One of the reports came from ward 16 in Gokana Local Government Area through the local government leadership of the party.

“We also got communications from ward 2, 10 and 19 of PHALGA. All the communications were received from the said wards came through the local government Caretaker Committees of our party.”

“From ward 16, Gokana, it was resolved by members of the party in that ward that Sen. Magus Abe having conducted himself in a manner that runs contrary to the party’s constitution, having severally engaged in anti-party activities against smooth running of the party, that he is suspended.

“It was ratified by the Local government excos and we hereby confirm his suspension and further recommend his expulsion from the party.

“From ward 2 of PHALGA, wherein it was resolved that Hon. Igo Aguma is suspended. We have looked at the resolution reached at the ward suspending Aguma as submitted to the state by the local government caretaker committee.

“We have looked at the issues of the purported inaugurating of local government caretaker committee, knowing that the national executive committee of the party has dissolved all structures of the party and inaugurated a caretaker committee. Igo has continually paraded himself as the authentic chairman of the party, acting against the party’s constitution.

“We have confirmed his suspension from his ward and local government and recommend his expulsion from the party

“We have also received from ward 10, PHALGA, on the suspension of Livingstone Wechie. We received from ward 19 of PHALGA of the suspension of Wogu Boms. Both of them (Wechie and Boms) were suspended by their wards, ratified by the local government and forwarded to us.

“We have confirmed the same and further recommended their expulsion for anti-party activities.”

According to Ogbobula, the Rivers APC also expelled all the members of the party inaugurated on Friday as Caretaker Committees of the Rivers APC at the state, LGA and ward levels by the other faction of the party.

“In the same emergence meeting, held today, we resolved that all those who were purportedly inaugurated by Igo Aguma as caretaker committees stand expired from the party.

“We further deliberated on the issue of all the people who took the party to court without exhausting the internal mechanism of the party, especially, after the decision of the party that no one should go to court without exhausting the party’s internal mechanism.

“We have listed all those who infracted the party and went to court. We resolved that all of them are from today stand expired from the party.

“We have invited them but they refused to answer to our invitation, that is in the case of Sen. Magus Abe, Hon. Igo Aguma, Wogu Boms and Livingstone Wechie. The persons who went to court their case is already known.

“Those who were inaugurated by Aguma were disciplined for making themselves available to be used even when they know that the party at the national has inaugurated the leadership of the party in the state, yet they went ahead to accept to be inaugurated,” he said.