ACN chieftains blast Tinubu over romance with Amaechi

 

 The Rivers State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN has criticised its national leader and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over his meeting with Governor Rotimi Amechi without recourse to the state executive members even as it sets up a two-man delegation to meet with the national officers of the party over their varying positions on the romance with the Rivers State governor.

 

A statement signed by ACN Publicity Secretary in the state, Jerry Needam, said a two-man committee comprising the state leader of the party, Dr Abiye Sekibo and Kenneth Kobani, the national treasurer, who is from the state, has been mandated to communicate its stands to the national party leader.

According to the statement, this is sequel to the state executive meeting of Sunday, May 2, 2013 which centered on the unilateral resolve by the ACN national leaders to identify with and work for the interest of Governor Amaechi, who it alleged “is entrapped in an intractable Peoples Democratic party, PDP, crisis that tends to consign him into political irrelevance.”

The party made some allegations against the state governor, who it said took many anti-democratic actions against its members.
“The state chapter of the party is aggrieved that Governor Amaechi, who has left no stone unturned in marginalising the opposition in the state, notably the ACN and that had unleashed all manners of persecution against the party and its members, including its state leader, Dr Abiye Sekibo, during and after the April 26, 2011 general elections, could easily warm himself into the party without the knowledge of the state chapter of the party.”

The statement also flayed the party’s national leader for his alleged disrespect insensitivity to the state leaders of the party in a meeting he had with them recently.