Rivers APC killed by litigations – Ganduje

<p>Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appealed for patience for the national leadership to reconcile the warring factions of the party in Rivers State.</p>, <p>Ganduje said this when he received APC stakeholders from Rivers on Thursday in Abuja.</p>, <p>The former Kano governor noted that the party in the State was being killed by litigation.</p>, <p>He said that Rivers was a very important state in the country because of its oil deposit and large population, describing it as an asset for election to any political party.</p>, <p>“So you can see why we cannot rubbish the state; Rivers as a state in politics is very important. Coincidentally, some of us are conversant with the politics in Rivers,” he said.</p>, <p>He said that the current crisis in the Rivers chapter of the party started in 2015.</p>, <p>“Our party in Rivers is highly factionalised, that is the fact about it. Our party in Rivers was killed by litigations, that one is a fact,” Ganduje said.</p>, <p>He thanked those who worked to ensure the party’s electoral success at the poll, saying it was a miracle that it won the presidential election and lost the state in the 2023 election.</p>, <p>“There is confusion in the party in Rivers, but we don’t want members to over heat the system, we are focused, we are organised, we work scientifically in politics.</p>, <p>“And therefore, you give us an enabling environment, give us a chance so that we can put a round peg in a round hole, square peg in a square hole, so that we maintain our dignity as a party.</p>, <p>“We have to capitalise on what we have, we have to capitalise on the fact that we have won the national election in Rivers.</p>, <p>“We are not extracting anything less again, but give us a chance to see how we can have both the state and the national election together,” Ganduje said.</p>, <p>He said that the APC National Working Committee (NWC) would constitute a leadership that would reconcile the warring factions in the state in the interest of its