The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has reaffirmed Chief Tony Okocha as the Chairman of the party in Rivers State.
The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, in Abuja on Saturday, denounced the claim by Mr. Emeka Beke to the office, insisting that Okocha remains the Chairman of the Rivers state chapter of the party.
Morka was reacting to a claim by Beke to the Chairmanship seat of the party in the state at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday. 
The party urged members and the public to disregard Beke’s claim, which Morka described as false and misleading.
Deouncing Beke, the party wrote: “The attention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been drawn to media reports of a claim by Mr Emeka Beke to the Chairmanship of the Rivers state chapter of our Party.
“We wish to clarify, for the record, that Chief Tony Okocha is, and remains, the Chairman of the Rivers state chapter of our Party.
“We urge our teeming members in the state, and the general public, to disregard the said reports or reference to Mr Beke as State Chairman of Rivers APC as false and misleading.”
