In a recent virtual interview on TVC News, Tony Okocha, the Caretaker Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, faced criticism from Tambari Gbara, the Rivers State Commissioner for Environment, over his statements regarding the lawmakers who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC.
Okocha claimed that the defected lawmakers were not officially registered members of the APC and that the party was still trying to woo them. However, Gbara pushed back against these claims, accusing Okocha of "speaking from both sides of his mouth" and contradicting his earlier stance on the matter.
Gbara referenced an event at the Polo Club in GRA, Port Harcourt, where Okocha had publicly welcomed the lawmakers into the APC and declared them new members. He questioned Okocha's subsequent claim that the lawmakers were being wooed to join the party, highlighting the inconsistency in his statements.
In his words, Gbara said, "It's very funny to see Tony Okocha speaking from both sides of his mouth and he has failed to realize that the event at the Polo club in GRA, Port Harcourt was covered by National Television where he graciously received these Lawmakers into his party, APC and pronounced that they were new members of APC. I don't understand the point where he says now because they've lost the membership of PDP, they're trying to woo them, woo them in what instance? I don't understand what he's trying to say."
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