The Governor of Rivers State, Nyeson Wike, has said that some of the presidential aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party are being sponsored by the All Progressive Congress.
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In a statement on Sunday in reaction to the probe of N117 billion spent by the State Government, Wike described the EFCC’s move as a political witch hunt.
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Sunday paid a condolence visit on his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, in Port Harcourt over the demise of the state’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Chief Emmanuel Chinwe Aguma.
Obrasua Johnbull, Chairman of DA in Rivers, stated this at a joint news conference in Port Harcourt on Wednesday by the two political parties.
Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, State Chairman of APC in Rivers, also alleged that Wike offered him N200 million bribe to compromise the election, while over time had placed many INEC officials in Port Harcourt on his payroll.
Three governors in the South South are being considered for the Niger Delta Governor of the Year Award 2017 by GbaramatuVoice Newspaper, a multi-media organisation in the region.
Wike, in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, directed that flags at the State Government House and government offices be flown at half-mast for two days
Aguma died on Friday in a London hospital.
The AG died on Friday at a hospital in London, a statement by the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Emma Okah, said
Wike made the threat at the swearing-in ceremony of the 2018 Batch ‘B’ Stream 1 Corps Members at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Nonwa-Gbam, Tai Local Government Area of Rivers.
The gathering of some of the country’s political heavyweights oscillating between the All Progressives Congress and the Reformed All Progressives Congress on the one hand and the Peoples Democratic Party on the other in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, raised speculations about the real motive of the meeting.
The Party stated this in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Monday in Abuja.
Wike gave the charge on Monday in Port Harcourt while swearing in the chairmen who emerged victorious in the council poll conducted on Saturday.
The party noted that the outcome of the poll, wherein PDP made a clean sweep of all the 23 local government areas of the state, confirms Wike’s positive impact in the lives of the people.
Wike made the commendation in an interview with newsmen shortly after monitoring the election in Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor Local Government Areas.
Kingsley Amafibe, the Project Director of Peace Ambassadors Agency, organisers of the annual awards, said this in Abuja.
The Spokesperson for the Forum, Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, said after a one-day meeting that the demand was in the spirit and clamour for restructuring and in line with true federalism.
Ahmad, who performed the foundation laying ceremony of the academy in Port Harcourt on Monday, described the project as an African project.
Ajemina Obene, Coordinator of the group in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt on Thursday that his organisation would partner with like minds to win Wike.
Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, made the call while condemning the development in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.