Amaechi, Ikimi appointed to resolve leadership crisis in Bayelsa APC
(Nigeria) Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Chief Tom Ikimi, have been nominated by the leadership of All Progressive Congress, APC, to
resolve the crisis rocking the party in
Bayelsa State.
Chief Richard Kpodo, the Interim Chairman of APC in Bayelsa,
confirmed the development in Yenagoa on Monday in an interview with News Agency
of Nigeria.
Kpodo said the
reconciliatory committee also included South-South members of the Interim
Committee of the party.
According to him, the decision to harmonise the factions was
informed by the need to avoid imposition of party structures and allow
formidable team of party executives in the home state of President Goodluck
Jonathan.
The chairman said the committee would also intervene in the
crisis rocking the party in Akwa Ibom.
He said the choice of Amaechi was based on his supervisory
role as the leader in-charge of the party in Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom.
Kpodo said the committee was expected to meet with the
factions of the Bayelsa APC in Port Harcourt.
NAN reports that the APC leadership crisis in Bayelsa is
between those who joined the party from PDC led by Kpodo and the former members
of ACN for the control of APC structure in Bayelsa.
Both factions have opened parallel secretariats of APC in
Yenagoa.
Mr Miriki Ebikibina, former National Youth Leader of the
defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), and leader of the ACN component of
APC also confirmed the peace move.
He said that all the feuding factions have been ordered to
observe ‘ceasefire’
"The only aspect
of APC crisis in Bayelsa is that loyalists of former Gov Timpre Sylva want to
hijack the party from us.
``We are hopeful that the committee will resolve the issues
before the inauguration of the party in Bayelsa. What the APC national leadership
is doing is to ensure internal democracy in the party at the state and national
levels," Ebikibina said.
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa of the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, had earlier called on the national leadership of the APC
to resolve the leadership crisis to maintain the peace in Bayelsa State.
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