Rivers 2023: Tonye Cole Emerges APC Consensus Governorship Candidate

• Tonye Cole confirmed as APC Consensus Governorship Candidate in Rivers

• The latest decision by the party leader is said to be upsetting some party members

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Tonye Cole, the former group Executive Director of Sahara Group, has emerged as the All Progressives Congress, APC, consensus governorship candidate in Rivers State.

After a late Friday night meeting of party leaders, Cole emerged as the consensus choice.

At the conference, all ten aspirants from the State’s Riverine zone were present.

The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, according to sources.

Tonye Cole is thought to be a close ally of the transportation minister.

He was chosen as the consensus candidate of the party in the 2019 governorship election before the court judgement that ordered that APC be removed from the ballot.

The latest decision by the party leader is said to be upsetting some party members who have accused the minister of transportation of ” imposing” the candidate on them.

But a source who was part of the meeting explained that the decision was taken by party leaders in the absence of the minister of Transportation.

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“The decision has just been made for Tonye Cole to fly the flag,” according to the source. The Minister did not make it. It was created by the party’s leaders.

“The 10 aspirants, plus two new names who expressed interest, were asked to leave, while all of the leaders, minus the Minister, sat and deliberated.” We were just summoned, along with the Minister, to hear their decision.”

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