RIVERS GOV POLLS: AAC rejects Amaechi’s endorsement, says party doesn’t need alliance with APC

Omoyele Sowore’s African Action Congress (AAC) party has turned down All Progressives Congress’ (APC’s) endorsement of its governorship candidate in Rivers State, Awara Biokpomabo.

The party said it has not entered into any alliances with the APC or any other party in Rivers State and has no intention to “seek strategic alliances” ahead of this Saturday governorship and House of Assembly elections.

Former Rivers’ governor and APC chieftain, Amaechi, had on Wednesday, told supporters that members of their party in the state had a lot to benefit from voting for Biokpomabo.

Amaechi had endorsed Biokpomabo apparently because APC had no candidates in any state elections in Rivers due to court rulings which annulled primaries and congresses conducted by the party in the state.

But responding to the endorsement in a statement by its deputy national chairman (administration), Malcolm Fabiyi, AAC rejected the endorsement of its candidate by the APC.

Sowore, had contested as the presidential candidate of the AAC in the February 23 presidential election which incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari won.

“We were made aware of the APC’s recent endorsement of the AAC’s Rivers State gubernatorial candidate in the forthcoming elections on the 9th of March. Rotimi Amaechi, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has pitched his tent with Awara Biokpomabo, our governorship candidate in the African Action Congress (AAC).

“While we have no influence over who other parties might choose to endorse, we wish to make it unequivocally clear that we have not entered any alliances or coalitions with the APC or any other party in Rivers State, neither have we made any decisions to dovetail parties or seek strategic alliances as we approach the state elections in a few days.

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“The AAC, led by Omoyele Sowore, promised Nigerians a different style of governance at the national level; we also believe we can bring this new promise of transparency and progress to bear at the state level.

“We urge all PVC-bearing Nigerians to come out en masse on the 9th of March and vote for transformation and a true paradigm shift, the kind that only the African Action Congress can bring,” AAC statement read.

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