Our correspondent who has been closely monitoring political dynamics in the state reports that this is due to the political crisis between Governor Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, who has hijacked the structure of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state. Fubara's loyalists aspiring to contest the council election have therefore fallen back to APP. They have collected and returned the expression of interest/nomination forms of APP for the Rivers local government election.