{"id":52481,"date":"2019-03-06T20:14:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T20:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/?p=52481"},"modified":"2019-03-06T20:14:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T20:14:30","slug":"african-action-congress-clarifies-position-on-apc-endorsement-of-rivers-gubernatorial-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/african-action-congress-clarifies-position-on-apc-endorsement-of-rivers-gubernatorial-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRICAN ACTION CONGRESS CLARIFIES POSITION ON APC ENDORSEMENT OF RIVERS GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p>The African Action Congress has been made aware of the APC\u2019s recent endorsement of the AAC\u2019s Rivers State gubernatorial candidate in the forthcoming elections on the 9th of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rotimi Amaechi, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has pitched his tent with Awara Biokpomabo, our governorship candidate in the African Action Congress (AAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While we have no influence over who other parties might choose to endorse, we wish to make it unequivocally clear that we have we not entered any alliances or coalitions with the APC or any other party in Rivers State. Neither have we made any decisions to dovetail parties or seek strategic alliances as we approach the state elections in a few days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AAC, led by Omoyele Sowore, promised Nigerians a different style of governance at the national level; we also believe we can bring this new promise of transparency and progress to bear at the state level. It is interesting to note that now that the APC has found itself without a gubernatorial candidate in the coming elections; they have finally acknowledged that the AAC does indeed have something to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parties are free to endorse whatever candidate they want to &#8211; Nigerians have witnessed many of these last-minute decisions in the last few weeks &#8211; but we will continue to engage the Nigerian people at grassroots and state level, specifically the great people of Rivers state, to continue to make them aware of the plans and programmes of the African Action Congress party.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We urge all PVC-bearing Nigerians to come out en masse on the 9th of March and vote for transformation and a true paradigm shift, the kind that only the African Action Congress can bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Malcolm Fabiyi<br>Deputy National Chairman,&nbsp;<br>African Action Congress&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Action Congress has been made aware of the APC\u2019s recent endorsement of the AAC\u2019s Rivers State gubernatorial candidate in the forthcoming elections on the 9th of March. Rotimi Amaechi, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has pitched his tent with Awara Biokpomabo, our governorship candidate in the African Action Congress (AAC). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75,312],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Suws-dEt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52482,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52481\/revisions\/52482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharaweeklyng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}