APC Kicks Off Campaigns for Rivers LG Polls, Issues Party Flags to Contestants

The Rivers State All Progressives Congress launched its campaigns for the August 30, 2025 elections on Thursday, presenting flags to the candidates for the positions of chairman and councilor.

Chief Tony Okocha, the state APC chairman, spoke to a throng that included representatives from all LGAs in the state and reaffirmed the party’s pledge to win 23 chairmanship and councillorship seats, including the state’s 319 wards.

Okocha praised party members for their unity in restoring the APC to its former prominence in Rivers politics and urged them to carry out the campaigns throughout the entire state.

He stated, “Every system has its procedures, so what we are doing today is a ritual.”

Many of you have been eager to get out there and start running campaigns. Once this is finished, you can explore every inch of the 319 walls and campaign, as well as the 23 local government areas.

Okocha, who earlier this month at the RSIEC stakeholders meeting had claimed that the APC will run in the council elections, reiterated his claim that the October 5, 2024, local council elections were faulty.

“You’ll remember that there was something that was a charade a while back,” he said to the audience on Thursday. We did not take part, despite APC’s declaration that we would not. We reassured them that there would be no problems. That won’t work. Did it succeed? Nope!

We stand before you today with courage, joy, and excitement to declare that the procedures that RISEC has established are correct because they are correct. We are available to assist and adhere to those procedures. After being vetted, our people were chosen as candidates for council members and chairman.

Once more, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate my friends who are the chairmen-elect and their deputies. The council members-elect and their deputies have my congratulations as well. Everything went smoothly in the primaries. Didn’t you hear anyone fighting? Since we are a formal political party, we are telling you that everything is set up.

We will not merely test the waters at this point. APC, on August 30th, we will not be testing the waters. The elections will be contested and won by us. We are traveling there to run in this election in an attempt to win the 319 wards and 23 local government areas in Rivers State,” Okocha stated.

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Magnus Ngei Abe, the senator who previously represented Rivers South East and who now represents Victory Giadom, the National Vice Chairman of the APC (South South), also spoke. He praised the togetherness and cohesion that Tony Okocha’s leadership had brought about within the party.

Any other individual claiming to be the state’s party leader is breaking the law, he claimed.

“We are one Rivers State,” Abe declared. All those who have an interest in River State are on board with us as we unite as one. Those who are not on board are wasting their time by going around on TV stations claiming to be the party’s leaders.

The two of us are moving together. We invite everyone in Rivers State to join the APC. To bring democracy’s benefits to the people at large, let’s collaborate with the present chairman,” he remarked.

Former Nigerian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Belize, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic Maureen Tamuno has praised the movement to include women in political and governing roles.

“Rivers State women are united in one voice,” she remarked. Our dedication to the fear of God is what has allowed Rivers State to remain united and peaceful to this day.

We want to reassure you that, as women with a grassroots foundation, we will undoubtedly reap the benefits of democracy when the time comes. so that River State can eventually start to experience the President’s Renewed Hope,” she stated.