APC Rivers State Reacts to Lawsuit Against Local Government Funding

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has denounced a lawsuit filed by party chieftain Tony Okocha, seeking to halt funds allocation to local government councils.

In a statement, APC spokesman Darlington Nwauju said that Okocha’s caretaker committee was sacked by a subsisting court judgment but continues to operate illegally.

Nwauju, in a statement, accused Okocha of undermining the state’s well-being and frustrating local councils, depriving them of essential funds.

The statement partly read, “We have carefully studied events in our dear state, especially as it pertains to the functioning of the local government system, and have come to the realisation that throwing our arms up in the air like Pontius Pilate or sitting in the fence will only further thin out what is left of the democratic fibre of the state.

“We are shocked at the continuous gleeful disdainful treatment for a valid judgment of the Court which had sacked Tony Okocha and his group.

“It is shameful that Okocha and his friends who do not believe or respect the judgment of the High Court which invalidated their so-called appointment by NWC after more than nine months of litigation have been openly boasting of getting judgment from a court of coordinate jurisdiction in Abuja, to stop allocations to local governments in Rivers State thereby frustrating thousands of Rivers people whose livelihood and survival is dependent on the local government system, especially council workers.”