RIVERS: APC protesters urge Oshiomhole to expel Magnus Abe from party

The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has been asked to commence processes for the dismissal of Senator Magnus Abe from the party.

Some aggrieved APC members in the state, made the request when they stormed the national secretariat of the party in Abuja on Thursday.

The protesters, who temporarily disrupted activities at the party’s headquarters, told newsmen that it had got to a point they would no longer ignore the crisis rocking the Rivers State chapter of the APC.

They said they would only rescind their call on the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to expel Abe, if the former Rivers East senator withdraws the lawsuits he filed against the APC in the state.

The coordinator of the protesting APC group, Emmanuel Orgwu, who spoke to journalists said, “Presently, Senator Magnus Abe is in court, the NWC set up a caretaker committee to conduct a congress and Magnus Abe with the names of dead people went to court in connivance with Governor Nyesom Wike and some national leaders of the APC who are enemies of the party to go to court.

“And today, we have come to ask the National Working Committee to prevail on Senator Magnus Abe to withdraw the case from court so that we can have a peaceful congress and prepare for 2023 elections and be part of every activity of the party at state and national level.

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“That if he (Abe) fails to withdraw the case from court, that Senator Magnus Abe should be expelled forthwith for peace to reign in Rivers APC. If the NWC fails to do any of these the youths in Rivers state will believe that the NWC is in connivance with Magnus Abe to distabilise APC in Rivers State.”

The group added in the letter it submitted to the party headquarters that Abe “is severely aching tooth with the APC and we are left with one of two alternatives: Either we choose to spend hard earned money for treatments and bear the inconvenience of severe pains at intervals or bear the pain of pulling out the tooth once and for all and get a permanent reprieve.”

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