No fewer than 28 statutory State Executive Committee (SEC) members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, on Monday, announced the suspension of Mr Igo Aguma as the party’s caretaker chairman.
Former senator representing Rivers East, Senator Andrew Uchendu, made the disclosure in a resolution reached by its members in Port Harcourt.
Uche Ndu said that former Executive Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Dr Sokonte Davis, had been appointed as Acting Chairman.
It would be recalled that Aguma was recognised as APC’s caretaker committee chairman in Rivers following a Port Harcourt High Court judgement delivered by Justice George Omereji.
The court had also ordered that all statutory SEC members of the party in the state should be part of the caretaker committee.
He expressed worries that Aguma disrespected the court judgement by taking critical decisions concerning the party without the committee members.
“He constituted himself into a sole administrator, relegating, abandoning and disregarding the committee, and taking critical decisions affecting the party all by himself.
“Aguma summoned a virtual meeting of the statutory members of SEC on June 14, he deliberately denied majority of SEC members the User Identity and password to access the meeting,” he said.
Uchendu stated that the judgement of the High Court did not pronounce Aguma a sole administrator of the party in Rivers.
He said that the 28 SEC members out of a total of 38 viewed Aguma’s actions as a deliberate attempt to fester crisis in the party.
“By that judgement, every statutory member of SEC forms part of the caretaker committee and must be part of the decision making process of the APC in Rivers.
“Every decision must be by majority vote after quorum has been formed,” he said.
