The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has officially launched its campaigns for the Local Government Elections, scheduled for August 30, 2025.

The Tony Okocha-led APC, while addressing the gathering on Thursday during the flag-off, boasted that the party will win the 23 chairmanship and councillorship positions in the 319 wards of the state.
Okocha pointed out that the local council polls conducted on October 5, 2024, under the Suspended Governor Siminalyi Fubara were flawed.

He said, “You will recall that some time ago, there was something that was a charade. APC said we were not going to participate, and we didn’t participate. We assured them that it will not hold water. It will not work. Did it work?

Continuing, Okocha said, “Today, we are bold, we are happy, we are excited to stand before you to tell you that because the processes are right, the processes put in place by RISEC are right. We are here to support, to follow those processes.

“Our people have been screened and declared candidates as chairmen and the councillors, so we are good to go.”

Okocha said the party members have been united to lift the APC into a place of pride in Rivers politics.

“A lot of you have been itching to go to the field and begin to campaign. Now, as soon as this is consummated, you are free to go to all the nooks and crannies of the 23 local government areas and the 319 walls and campaign,” he said

Also speaking, Magnus Abe, the senator who represented Rivers South East in the Senate, noted that the unity and cohesion which had been achieved in the party under the leadership of Tony Okocha were amazing.

Abe, who represented Victory Giadom, the APC’s National Vice Chairman (South South), said, “Rivers State is united. We are coming together as one, and everybody who has the interest of River State at heart is on board. Anyone who is not on board but is going around television stations to declare himself the leader of this party is wasting his time.

“We are together and we are moving. Everybody in Rivers State is welcome to join the APC. Let us work together with the current chairman to deliver the dividends of democracy to the grassroots.”
Maureen Tamuno, former Nigerian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Belize, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, applauded the push to integrate women into political and governance structures.

She said, “The women of Rivers State are united in one voice. We are committed to the fear of God that has brought about the unity and the peace that we enjoy today in Rivers State.”