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Sowore's party AAC denies alliance with APC, Amaechi

- AAC says it has not entered into any form of agreement with the APC in Rivers state

- The party clarified its stand after APC chieftain, Amaechi, announced his support for AAC governorship candidate

- The APC in Rivers state has been banned by INEC from contesting the governorship election

The African Action Congress (AAC) has denied having any relationship with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state after APC chieftain, Rotimi Amaechi, told party loyalists to vote for the AAC governorship candidate.

The APC in Rivers state was barred by the Independent National Electoral Commission from fielding candidates for the 2019 elections, hence, Amaechi's decision to back the AAC governorship candidate, Awara Biokpomabo.

Sahara Reporters reports that the AAC leadership, however, said the party has not entered into any form of agreement with the APC.

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AAC deputy national chairman (administration), Dr. Malcolm Fabiyi, said: "We were made aware of the APC’s recent endorsement of the AAC’s 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).

"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.

"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.

"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."

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that supplementary elections for some National Assembly positions in Rivers will hold on Saturday, March 9, alongside the governorship and state House of Assembly elections.

Edwin Enabor, the INEC Head of Voter Education and Publicity in Rivers, in a statement in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, March 6, explained that the supplementary polls followed violence which occurred in the areas during the presidential and National Assembly elections on February 23.

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