2023 POLLS: APC must begin to plan for life after Buhari — Princewill vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Tonye Princewill, a politician, businessman, filmmaker and philanthropist was the director of strategic communications of the All Progressives Congress, APC campaign in Rivers State in the 2019 general elections. He was the Rivers governorship candidate of the Action Congress, AC, in 2007 in Rivers state and in 2015 he also became the governorship candidate of Labour Party, LP before he teamed up with the APC in 2017 in a bid to oust the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
I will say however that party disunity at the state level was not what cost us the election. It was disunity at the national level buoyed by a few in the judiciary and in INEC that were willing to use the guise of local issues to implement a plan hatched in Rivers State Government House. We were naive to think that those threatened by Hon. Rotimi Amaechi were only in PDP. Now we know that was not the case.
It was a former British Prime Minister that said “A week is a long time in politics.” That applies here too. My prediction is that there will be an alignment and realignment of interests leading up to the next elections. We see it all the time. It is nothing new. What may be new is the President may sign into law a new electoral act that will introduce electronic voting. People will become more important to politicians if that is the case. In many states that has not been the case.
I am not a strong force, just a very stubborn politician who will not play politics as usual. I am easy to understand. My loyalty to party is not at the expense of my loyalty to my people. As long as my party respects my people, my party can have no problem with me. Who are my people? The youths, the vulnerable, the disabled, the masses, the Niger Deltans, the Ijaws, Rivers people and of course, the Kalabari Kingdom. Mess with any of these groups and you have messed with me.
From your arguments, it is obvious you consider the last governorship election in Rivers State as a sham but there are those who would argue that Governor Wike is solidly on ground in that state and that he understands the politics better and has earned for himself the sobriquet, Mr. Project. What is the chance that APC has with another four years of Wike?
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