Sen. Magnus Abe, the Senator who represented the Rivers South-East Senatorial district in the 9th National Assembly on Wednesday appealed to his teaming supporters in Rivers to trust his recent reconciliation with the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike and his return to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
He made the appeal at a meeting with leaders and grassroots coordinators of his political support groups, and other supporters where he officially informed them of the decision to return to the APC.
Abe who defected to the Social Democratic Party SDP and flew the party’s governorship flag in the 2023 gubernatorial election in Rivers State recently announced his return to the APC, the party under which he had pursued his governorship ambition since 2015.
After several promises that he would not leave the party being one of its foundation members, Abe was forced to leave to the SDP in 2023 due to a prolonged intractable intra-party squabbles between him and former Governor Rotimi Amaechi and then, leader of the APC in Rivers, that made the party suffer huge electoral loses.
At the heat of the campaign for the 2023 general elections, he also fell out with his political allies, Nyesom Wike, then governor of Rivers State and Tony Okocha, his fellow warrior in the then APC trenches.
But speaking with his supporters on Wednesday, Abe explained his decision to tow the path of reconciliation with Wike saying; “I have my reasons. Number one is that everybody knew that from the beginning we tied ourselves to Asiwaju, Ahmed Bola Tinubu. The first billboard in support of Tinubu in the south south was put up here.
“I was patron to every pro-Tinubu organisation in the South -South. Yes the FCT Minister is my friend. I did everything to facilitate him becoming part of the Tinubu campaign because I knew that his presence will make substantial difference that will help us to win.
“It’s not true that Wike came and pushed me aside, no. We had a disagreement but I will not give the details of the disagreement. Wike did not steal anything from us, he did not deceive us to take anything from us. That was not how it happened, but something happened”.
