The All Progressives Congress (APC) national convention committee on Saturday tasted the bitter pills of the trouble besetting the Rivers State chapter of the party.

This was as hundreds of youths said to be loyalists of Senator Magnus Abe in the state stormed Novotel Hotel, where the party national convention committee was having a meeting, and barred them from exiting the place.

Serious internal wrangling has characterized Rivers APC since the former governor of the state and current Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, allegedly dislodged some chieftains of the party said to be working contrary to his political calculation.

The dislodged members were reportedly chieftains of the party sympathetic to the governorship ambition of Senator Abe, who represents Rivers South East senatorial district.

Blocking the hotel premises and vowing that the committee members would not be allowed to exit the hotel, the angry factional members accused them of refusal to distribute the material meant for the election to the 23 local government areas of the state.

According to the protesting APC members, the committee had already written the results to favour a faction of the party, a situation they vowed to resist.

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One of the leaders of the angry APC members, a member representing Eleme/Tai/Oyibo Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, Hon. Barinada Mpigi, expressing the reason for the protest, alleged that the delegate lists had been manipulated.

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Wike right now.

Only Magnus Ibe in reality for now can come up with an alternative force to match the incumbent but I theorize that Wike and Amaechi are working secretly towards the "ikwerre" agenda and thus want to field a weaker candidate.

The main battle though is 2023.