I won’t join AC - Odili

John Ogbedu, Port Harcourt - 13.12.2007

FORMER governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, has denied media reports that he and “some persons are working together to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Action Congress(AC) in order to achieve certain political goals” in the state.

A statement signed by Mr. Emma Okah, Dr. Odili’s former Chief Press Secretary and Commissioner for Information in the Sir Celestine Omehia administration which was posted online to the Nigerian Tribune on Wednesday, said the allegation “is not only malicious, it is absolutely not true.”

“It is an organised effort by some desperate persons, acting for their selfish political interests to mislead the public and incite members of the PDP against Dr. Odili and portray him in a bad light,” the statement added.

While advising the public “to ignore such publications,” Mr. Okah reaffirmed that “Dr. Odili does not desire to leave the PDP for any other political party or the AC under any circumstance.”

Nigerian Tribune recalls that at the wake of the swearing in of Governor Rotimi Amaechi as the state governor late October, the AC’s media consultant in the state, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, had accused “unseen hands in the “outgone Odili/Omehia administration” of pressurising the AC not to withdraw its election petition against the PDP in the state.