Nigeria: Tony Okocha elected Rivers APC chairman,

Chief Tony Okocha, former Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was on Saturday elected Chairman of the party.

The congress, held despite a court order stopping the party’s congresses in Rivers State, saw Okocha emerge unopposed.

Prior to the election, a Port Harcourt High Court had sacked the Okocha-led Caretaker Committee, describing it as illegal and pronouncing the Emeka Beke-led elected executives as the authentic…