Members of the caretaker committee for the Rivers State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress were sworn in by the National Working Committee on Friday.
Vice Chairman for South-South, Victor Giadom, National Chairman of the APC, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, and members of the NWC attended the inauguration, which was held at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja at around 1:30 pm.
Two days prior, the APC NWC had disbanded the previous state excos in order to form an ad hoc committee to supervise congress’s election of new state executive members.
Felix Morka, the National Publicity Secretary, declared the dissolution on Wednesday at the party secretariat.
Morka revealed that Eric Nwibani was selected as secretary and Chief Tony Okocha as chairman of the seven-member caretaker committee.
Chibuike Ikenga, Stephen Abolo, Silvester Vidin, Senibo Karibi Dan-Jumbo, and Miss Darling Amadi are among the other members.
After the oath-taking, Ganduje addressed the newly sworn-in officers and asked them to get ready for the difficult task of mending party divisions and ex-members.
The APC national chairman also charged them to use the six-month duration to create an enabling environment for the congress that will usher in leadership at all levels.
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He said, “I want to congratulate the newly sworn-in members of the caretaker committee. I am sure you are fully aware that since 2015, the APC has been suffering some setbacks in the areas of conflicts, litigations, and counter-litigations that finally resulted in the loss of our great party in Rivers State.
“So, this new NWC has taken a look at the issues pertaining to the party both at national and individual state levels and decided to reform the party. There is no doubt we have members who have been with APC since inception. Some left the party. Some prominent chieftains who left the party even contested against us in another political party. They now wish to come back. Those who left to form factions are also ready to come back.
“You can see that there is no better time to rejig the party than now especially under a new state party leadership and we have confidence in you. Part of the reform system we have introduced includes electronic registration of our members and we request that you pay attention to the electronic registration of our members and do some work to spearhead the exercise.
“We expect you to constitute various committees to get more members into the party. That is the work you should do and we expect you to create an enabling environment so congresses could be conducted for the emergence of leadership at local government, state, and even senatorial levels.
There should be no discrimination because you are a product of unity.”
