Speaking after the announcement of the governorship election result in Bayelsa State, Nkire said Dickson kissed the dust the same way pompous despots kiss the ground in their final hours of humiliation.
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Chief Nkire, who is now a member of the Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees, told newsmen in Abuja that the reason why hundreds of thousands of members of the ruling party decamped to other parties, especially the PDP, had become incontrovertible to all and sundry.
In a statement in Umuahia, Abia State, the former APC chieftain said he decided to join forces with the PDP both at the state and the federal levels in the next general elections because he was convinced that Nigerians wanted the party back to serve them better.
According to a statement he issued in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, Nkire said he was quite sure the people of Abia State would not forget to pay Ikpeazu with a resounding victory in order to encourage him to do much more.
Deputy National Chairman of the Reformed All Progressives Congress R-APC (South), Chief Sam Nkire, has warned members of his party to stop negotiating with the All Progressives Congress APC as it would amount to an exercise in futility.
Nkire, a member of the Board of Trustees of the APC as well as a member of the National Caucus of the party, said he took the decision due to the unjust treatment he got from the ruling party.
He further appealed to party members to rather join hands with President Muhammadu Buhari “to effect the ‘change’ we jointly promised Nigerians in 2014”
The APC chieftain added that President Buhari’s records, especially in the areas of combating insurgency and fighting corruption, were there for the whole world to see
Chief Nkire was also of the opinion that there was the need for all governors and political office holders to lead by example in order to convince other Nigerians to join the fight
However, and for the avoidance of doubt, no reasonable Igbo man, prominent or not, will support any form of agitation by means of force. Any manner of protest which involves violence is condemned in all civilised societies, including Igboland
He recalled how not too long ago, Kano State was adjudged the first or second fastest developing state in the country in both physical infrastructure and human capacity building due to the hard work of Kwankwaso and Ganduje as governor and deputy governor
Nkire said the fact that there were no reports of money changing hands during the screening of the ministerial nominees was a plus for the Buhari administration
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja at the weekend, Chief Nkire said he came to this conclusion knowing that Prince Abubakar Audu was the most popular politician in Kogi State today
The party had gone to court to ask among other things that the Open Secret Ballot System as contained in the Electoral Act (As amended) be adopted by the Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission as the system of voting
Nkire, in a statement on Sunday, said the best and most workable arrangement would have been for the parties involved to keep their structures but field one candidate during the presidential election
Nkire, who spoke at the end of the party’s National Working Committee meeting in Abuja, said there would no longer be an extension of time, adding that defaulting chairmen would face sanctions if they do not comply within the stipulated timeframe
Nkire said political parties were built like churches and mosques with at least two doors: one for entrance and other for exit but without restrictions whatsoever