text: There were reports of disagreement between Mr. Peterside and Mrs. Semenitari following the latter�s decision to accompany a delegation from the Senate on a visit to Governor Nyesom Wike at the Government House, Port Harcourt, on Wednesday.
  In a statement Friday by its chairman, Davies ikanya, the APC alleged that the rumour of rift in the party was originated by the state chapter of the PDP and that it was not only �a wicked lie from the pit of hell but has no foundation whatsoever.�
  �This plot is dead on arrival because we are too intelligent and too close-knit a family to be deceived by such a fallacious and wicked falsehood intended to distract us from the urgent task of winning the forthcoming State and National Assembly re-run elections.
  �How can the performance of a simple official duty by the Acting NDDC Managing Director amount to disloyalty to APC and a fictional quarrel with Dr. Peterside over the 2019 governorship ticket?� the party said.
  �Many of the Distinguished Senators whom Mrs. Semenitari escorted to the Government House to see Governor Nyesom Wike are also APC members, so does their visit mean that they are also disloyal to the APC?�
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  It said, �As head of NDDC, she has a statutory role that covers the six states of South-South that includes Rivers State plus the two states of Abia and Imo in the South-East and Ondo State in the South-West.
  �The Senate is probing the 16 years of NDDC and if the investigating senators are to visit the Rivers State Governor on issues pertaining to NDDC, are we saying that the Acting NDDC MD should not accompany them because she is an APC chieftain even while most of the
  �As a matter of fact, she was the only one invited to appear before the then dreaded National Security Adviser to erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan when the heat was on us at Rivers State,� the party said.
  �Apart from this, she was one of our principals targeted to be assassinated by the PDP hoodlums at the Okrika rally attack.
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  �Her house in Port Harcourt was attacked immediately Wike took over as governor and her personal jeep towed away by the Wike regime just to publicly disgrace her.
  �So, if anybody is trying to blackmail her for any reason such a person is embarking on a mission impossible.�
  �It is worth stressing that we have no Dakuku faction or any faction or factions but one united, compact, virile and vibrant Rivers APC under the leadership of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi,� it said.
  �As for the purported intrigues about 2019, that does not deserve any attention because it just does not make sense as we cannot start talking about 2019 when we have not concluded the 2015 elections.�
  The APC urged its members, supporters and the public to ignore the story of the alleged rift, saying it was �a desperate strategy by the floundering PDP to shore up its image ahead of the forthcoming Assembly re-run elections, for which PDP has become jittery because of the imminent defeat staring it in the face.�