No Factions In Rivers Action Alliance –National Chairman

The National Chairman of Action Alliance, Senator Suleiman Salawu, has declared that the party has no factions in Rivers State as there is a duly elected state executive committee of the party in the state.

Senator Salawu, who made the clarification in an exclusive interview with The Tide On Sunday in Port Harcourt on Friday said the Kenneth Atata-led executive committee of the party in the state was the only recognised and authentic exco in the state.

He explained that other persons parading themselves as officials and leaders of the party in the state outside members of the state executive committee were impersonators and impostors, contending that such persons had been reported to security agencies in the state for appropriate actions.

According to him, Mr. Kenneth Atata has been performing creditably as the state chairman of the party and has been duly cleared by the party to function as such.

Senator Salawu reiterated that if somebody else has been parading as the chairman of the party in the state, such a person should be arrested for impersonation.

“To us, we have no problems in Action Alliance in Rivers State and the state chapter of the party under the chairmanship of Hon. Kenneth Atata. If somebody happens to parade as the party chairman, it is impersonation. It is criminal. He should be arrested. The person has not come to Abuja to attend our meetings as party chairman. Atata is the only one attending our meetings as the state chairman of the party,” he said.

The national chairman said Action Alliance was a strong political party in the country which other political parties particularly the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) see as a potential threat, saying, “that is why they have been strangulating us.”

He stressed the need for the electoral system to be reformed in the country to check the high incidence of electoral malpractice in the country particularly as the nation prepares for the 2011 general elections.

Donatus Ebi