BREAKING: Tension in Rivers APC as Abe’s camp set to hold parallel primary

Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt

THE crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State took a fresh turn on Sunday as party members loyal to one of the governorship aspirants, Senator Magnus Abe, are making moves to hold a parallel congress.

There has been a lingering controversy over the mode of primary to adopt for the governorship internal election slated for Sunday.

While the Rotimi Amaechi group of the APC in Rivers State had said that it would adopt the indirect primary to choose its candidate, the Abe group is embracing the direct primary.

Also, another governorship aspirant of the APC in the state, Dumo Lulu-Briggs, has called on the national executive of the APC to postpone the exercise in order to ensure transparency of the process.

Lulu-Briggs alleged that he had been schemed out of the process, adding that delegates had already been handpicked by the leader of the party in the state, Rotimi Amaechi, with the aim of choosing a particular person as governorship candidate.

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