Nyesom Wike, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, governor of Rivers state, appears set to return as the occupant of Brick House, the Rivers state government House, after Saturday, March 2, 2019 governorship election.

This is because there is no clearly defined governorship Candidate of the rival Opposition All Progressive Congress, APC, from the state to slug it out with him in the election. The two claimants to the position, Tonye Cole, a Lagos based oil baron, who has the backing of Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers state and minister of Transportation and Magnus Abe, a Senator of Federal Republic of Nigeria are still battling it out to win the heart of the party leadership to be endorsed as the governorship Candidate of the party.

The case of Cole may have been made worse by the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division which confirmed an earlier judgment by a High Court in a case brought against him by Senator Abe, one of the aggrieved governorship candidates and former close political ally to Amaechi, erstwhile governor of Rivers state, who felt shortchanged in the governorship primaries and thus may not be ready to allow him stand in for the election.

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Source: http://www.thevaluenews.com.ng/politics/2019-wikes-smooth-ride-to-brick-house/