Gov. Wike Indirectly Working for APC – Rivers state PDP PCC

By Iyojo Ameh

The PDP presidential campaign council Thursday, alleged that RiverGov. Wike Indirectly Working for APC – Rivers state PDP PCC
s State Governor Nyesome Wike is working for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, in the February 25th presidential election.

The PDP Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) made this known in their response to Wike’s revocation of the Adokie Amasiaemeka Stadium, Igwurita Ali, Ikwerre Local Government Area, for use by the presidential candidate of the PDP.

According to the office, the presidential campaign train is scheduled to hold a rally at the venue on February 11, 2023.

However, the state government, in a statement on Wednesday Feb. 1, announced the withdrawal of the earlier approval given to the former Vice-President.
Director General of the PDP PCC in Rivers state, Dr Abiye Sekibo, said in a letter dated February 1, 2023, and addressed to the PDP Governor that he (Wike) is working for Tinubu to win the February 25 presidential election.

Sekibo, a former Minister of Transport, alleged that wike had already directed members of his cabinet, local government chairmen, his aides and party executives at the various levels in the state to support Tinubu in the election.
“Our attention has been drawn to your letter with reference number MOS/C/409/S49/T/17 dated January 31, 2023, and addressed to His Excellency, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council who has minuted the said letter to us for our reaction.
“You stated that credible intelligence available to the Government of Rivers State and recent developments now shows that our presidential campaign organisation is working in collaboration and cohort with a faction of the APC in River State led by Tonye Patrick Cole and that it is the intention of our campaign organisation to accommodate and share the approved facility for our campaign with the said faction of the APC.
“We wish to state as follows in reply: We completely deny your assertion as patently false and perverse, and we believe that our highly respected security agencies cannot furnish you with such untrue and unfounded lies.
“That the PDP Presidential Campaign Council has nothing whatsoever to do with the APC in Rivers State”, Sekibo said in the letter.
The PDP PCC said it is appalling and highly preposterous for Wike or anyone to assume that it was working with the nation’s ruling party to hold an event in the same venue jointly.
“We believe that the only reason for this cancellation is Your Excellency’s notice of our massive mobilisation and total acceptance of Waziri Atiku Abubakar as the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by the people of River States.
“However we are rather aware by credible information reaching us that Your Excellency has directed all Local Government Council Chairman, Special Advisers, Commissioners, Party Executives at the state, local government, and ward levels, and all other appointees of yours to work for the APC presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tunibu even though you have not dared to announce same to the people of Rivers State.
“Your general public utterances, innuendos and conduct have pointed to the fact that you are bent on frustrating and if possible, preventing the emergence of the PDP Presidential candidate, His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Waziri Adamawa, as the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
The PCC further criticized Governor Wike for his involvement in forming the five aggrieved PDP governors called the G5, describing their move as ‘the height of anti-party activity.’
The campaign council stressed that it was surprising that Wike is now accusing the PDP leadership of hobnobbing with the APC faction in his state.