Former Senator and All Progressives Congress (APC)’s stalwart in Rivers State, Magnus Abe, has joined the governorship race ahead of the 2023 election.
This is coming despite a consensus arrangement which produced Tonye Cole as the preferred candidate of the party for the governorship election.
A statement by Parry Benson, Abe’s media aide, quoted him as saying that Rivers people irrespective of political affiliation and tribes, contributed money to purchase the expression of interest and nomination forms for him.
Abe said, “I have already purchased my form to run for the primary election in our party, APC, and it will interest you to know that Rivers people from all across, contributed money to support me to get that form.
“Rivers people from every divide, every ethnic group, every political affiliation, every religious affiliation that you can think of, Muslims, Christians, people across the State, put in N20,000, some N1 million. They brought money to help me cross that barrier.
“I think that with that kind of background, the party members across the state have realized that I’m one of their surest best to be able to cross that bridge when we actually get there.”
Magnus Abe, a perennial Guber aspirant, is known to be a political rival of Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.
His political tussle with the Minister resulted in the exclusion of the All Progressives Congress from the ballot in the 2019 governorship elections in the state.
