Rivers APC Assures President Tinubu of Continued Support

The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reaffirmed its commitment to President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

This assurance was given during a one-million-man march led by Chief Tony Okocha, Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee in the state, in collaboration with members of the Renewed Hope Agenda.

The march, held on Thursday, aimed to demonstrate Rivers State’s unwavering support for President Tinubu.

Participants, including APC members and supporters of the Renewed Hope Agenda, marched from GRA Junction, Aba Road, to the APC state secretariat in Port Harcourt.

Okocha stated that the rally also supported the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.

Addressing the crowd at the APC state secretariat, he clarified that the event was not exclusively an APC affair but a demonstration of “Mr. President’s family in Rivers State.”

He praised Wike for his role in securing Tinubu’s victory in Rivers State during the last election, referring to him as “001” and the “leader of the Renewed Hope Agenda in Rivers State.”

Okocha expressed hope that Wike would join the APC to help secure Tinubu’s victory in the 2027 general elections.

“This man called Ezenwo Nyesom Wike is a game changer. He has a Midas touch. You remember that we have been wooing him to come over to Macedonia to help us.

This is again one of those attempts to woo him to come over to APC and help us so that we’ll continue to win the election for Mr. President. Particularly when the election comes for 2027,” Okocha said.

Reflecting on the challenges during the 2023 general elections, Okocha highlighted the obstacles faced by Tinubu’s supporters within APC in the state, citing threats from the then-party leadership.

Despite these challenges, they ensured Tinubu’s victory in Rivers State.

“A time came in Rivers State when we could not campaign for our presidential candidate using the party platform upon which he emerged because we were threatened by the entire leadership of APC in Rivers State,” he said.

“They told us that the man we were supporting, Bola Tinubu, was too old and that he had become senile.

How can we support a man who will die any moment soon, that he was at the departure lounge? They said to us that we were supporting a man who is medically unfit and was using all the social media platforms to paint him as someone who defecates on himself.

I want to state here that President Tinubu is the best thing that happened to Nigeria.”

Addressing the challenges facing the Nigerian economy, Okocha asserted that Tinubu could not rectify the accumulated problems of the past 30 years within one year.

“Rome was not built in a day. Nigeria suffered setbacks—political, economic, socio-cultural—and we have a leader who just came on the throne for nearly one year.

Can he possibly upturn the mistakes of 30 or 50 years in one year? So it’s a process and the process began the same day he took the oath of office.

The President was very clear when he said that he wanted to fix Nigeria and he said that fuel subsidies were gone.

Today, states, federal, and local government areas are packing money in billions for the development of the state.

I am aware that the first and biggest project that will transverse the length and breadth of Nigeria is being carried out under Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” Okocha concluded.