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Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has boasted that any candidate presented by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the 2023 governorship election in the State.

The Governor called on PDP stakeholders to see the emergence of Mr. Siminialayi Fubara as the party’s governorship candidate as an act of God.

Wike in a statement after the governorship primary election said many people strived to clinch the governorship ticket but only one person succeeded in getting it.

The Governor also declared that with the victory of Fubara, Rivers PDP had a candidate that would fly its flag in the 2023 governorship election.

He said: “With the performance of our administration, and with what we have achieved in this State, there is no candidate that PDP will present that will not win election.

“Our campaign focus will be like this, that we made promises to the State to do roads and other projects, ask us, have we done them? Yes, we have.

“We will ask them (other parties), what have you done for Rivers State? Certainly nothing. So, who tells you that any other party can come and win this State? Let no one deceive you about that.”

Wike said that after the presidential primary, PDP leaders in Rivers would set up a team that wouldwork to ensure that the party wins the 2023 gubernatorial election..

Fubara, the immediate past Accountant-General of Rivers State, described his victory as evidence of grace.

He called on all party faithful to support his victory and the new drive to consolidate on the achievements of Wike’s administration.

He said: “It is not victory for Fubara. It is victory for the party. It is not just victory for the party, but victory to moving the state forward.

“The purpose of this special event this night is also to consolidate on the achievements, on every side, of this present administration.

“We are going to work together to sustain the work that this administration has already done for us.”

Allisgud:
Wike for president,since he is the only one talking about this restructuring and state police no other politicians has ever agreed on,u have my vote if he like make he no count

Reality3080:
This garbage is just to boost d ego of the narcissist who call themselves peter obi fans,even if nobody gang up against obi he stands no chance n that’s d reality

But just to always flatter his supporters they have to cook up something,wike told them d truth last night n he made it clear

Peter obi wasn’t going to win anything

Dapson73:
Peter Obituary can never win the PDP presidential ticket in a free and fair election.

An aspirant without a sitting governor support, not even Igbo governor(s). The highest person I identified with his aspiration is Chief Doyin Okupe who has no electoral value.

If he likes, let him decamp to any party, he will not even come second in the general election.

He kick started too late for any serious minded aspirant. Let him learn his lessons.

ChangetheChange:
Atiku is giving Wike sleepless night
Wike is seeing Atiku in his dream
Wike knows Atiku will floor him this weekend

Rivers State deputy governor, Dr. Ipalibo Harry-Banigo, was on Monday elected as the senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Rivers West senatorial district.

Also, elected as PDP senatorial candidates for Rivers South-East and Rivers East senatorial districts, were Senator Barry Mpigi and Chief Alwell Onyesoh, respectively.

While Mpigi is the current Senator representing the Rivers South-East senatorial district in the National Assembly, Onyesoh was Rivers State Commissioner for Education, during the administration of former governor Peter Odili.

The trio emerged unopposed as all others who picked the PDP senatorial forms from the three senatorial districts were disqualified by the party’s Senatorial Screening Committee.

LEADERSHIP observed that the senatorial primaries, which held simultaneously in Ahoada Town, Bori and Port Harcourt, were conducted amidst tight security.

It was further observed that at the Port Harcourt City local government secretariat, venue of the PDP primaries, there were more than 1,000 policemen and other security operatives as well as over 28 patrol vehicles on ground.

Smithkafors:
Lol, I will laugh Louder when una give Wike ticket. If you like wear red cap.

Faber:
He came back from the PDP meeting with Obj yesterday sullen, furious and mad.

All man were told by Baba Obj to step down for Peter Obi. Britain wants fresh hands to handle their limited liability company.

Wike's vain hopes of both becoming President or VP are now quashed.
What of all those he bullied up North Atiku, Saraki and co
What of Igbos he denied
What of APC he called cancerous
What of his feud with Rivers people

Dude is alone. People around him should watch him closely, suicide is real o

TheNiceGuy:
Asking you for his legacy isn't out of the subject matter.

He's good as you said, fine!
Give us just 4 of his legacy as Anambra Governor!

Stop directing us to Google, we've search search and search, NOTHING.

FERNANDEZISBACK:
The children are getting wiser and smarter than you adults who fail to think for yourself that religion is nothing but a bondage meant to cage gullible ones..

Modified: about 4 months later this graced frontpage.. ..
Our famous Nietzsche is challenging humanity to assume the throne that they have already made vacant and he is reminding everyone of the responsibility involved in doing so...He is calling you all to become greater than your theistic imaginings..to become real rather than being slaves to an invented creature created to shield humanity from the crushing realisation of the power and potential they actually have...

God is dead...God remains dead...And we have killed him..must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

Igbojew:
See goal shifting ooo.You and your coward Itshekiri,Urhobo,Ijaws will keep shifting goal till IPOB reach una overrated Warri.If Wike think he can repeat what he did to IPOB when they are armless let him try it again now that they are arm.Oh I forgot,your so called Wike have already started begging IPOB because he knows that his name is in their Black Book......I am that Igbojew

Rivers Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Nyesom Wike, has berated some PDP aspirants for betraying the party in 2015, saying they do not deserve the party’s presidential ticket for 2023.

Wike, who alluded to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, said some aspirants in the PDP, caused disunity in the party in 2015, formed the new-PDP and sold out the party’s goodwill and electoral opportunities.

He spoke when he met Oyo PDP leaders and delegates in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State on Thursday to solicit support ahead of the party’s presidential primary this month.

The Governor said: “The issue is, who are those who made PDP to lose election in 2015 that today we are suffering? Today, we are in opposition and trying to take power back.

“But see what the country has been turned into. Who are those who told Nigerians that President Buhari is a saint, that President Buhari will salvage Nigeria. What is their sense of judgment. Who are those aspirants who abandoned PDP, betrayed PDP and went to support President Buhari?”

Wike, in a statement by his Special Assistant, Media, Kelvin Ebiri, insisted that some PDP presidential aspirants brought President Muhammadu Buhari to power.

He said: “Now we are suffering. People are dying everyday. From January to March in Kaduna, over 1000 people have been killed. So many people have been kidnapped.”

The Rivers Governor also alluded to a similar behaviour that was demonstrated by a PDP chieftain, who got immersed support of the party in 2019.

Wike said that there was a need for electorate at all levels to be more concerned about the kind of people they wanted to entrust the leadership of the country.

He said anyone desiring to govern Nigeria must be firm, courageous and should own up what he said.

“If it was the wrong thing that was said, say I am sorry but I have to say something as a leader. Not when you say something one minute, the next moment you say they didn’t get your approval”, he said.

Wike said PDP and Nigeria did not require theorists, but somebody who had the ability and qualities to offer focused leadership.

He explained that if he became the president of Nigeria, he would put the best of heads together, who would work under good supervision and coordination.

He said: “Nigerians know my views. I believe in restructuring. I believe in state police. You cannot stop insecurity in this country without state police which is the practice in all countries that run true federalism. Intelligence is key. Before it happens you’ve stopped it or cage them.

“Look at it, 42 people died in train blast, up until now no concrete report. This is a country where a Minister of Transport, after people died in such accident and the next day, he went and collected form for presidency.

“You’re a Minister of Education, schools have closed for how many months, the next thing, the minister went and collected form for presidency. I have not seen a country like this, no conscience.”

Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde assured Wike of the support of Oyo and south-west geopolitical zone support.

“If they say Seyi Makinde and the delegates from the south west of Nigeria are supporting Governor Wike, say there is a reason. When people come to canvass for your vote listen to them, but at the end of the day tell them this is who (Wike) we are supporting,” he said.

Former Ekiti Governor, Ayo Fayose, explained that south-west delegates will be meeting in Ibadan before the PDP national convention to take decision on who to support.

According to Fayose, for the first, delegates from the south-west will be speaking with one voice during the convention to pick the party’s presidential flagbearer. “We will take a position and we will hand over the delegates to our governor, our leader (Makinde). If you like me, follow me. If you like governor Wike follow him. But by the grace of God we will do house meeting before we set out. We will go to Abuja with at least 85 to 90 percent of our votes in one direction,” he said.

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No fewer than 44,045 delegates will on May 26 elect candidates in 28 states where governorship elections will take place next year.

The states, where the primaries will hold include Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Delta, Cross River, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Kwara, Benue, Plateau, Niger, Nasarawa, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states.

However, findings by our correspondents showed that there would be stiff contests in Kano, Oyo, Rivers, Sokoto, Niger and Benue where there were struggles for the control of the party’s structures.

On Wednesday, the ruling party, which earlier scheduled its governorship primary for Friday, shifted it to May 26.

Already ahead of the primary, there was violence in some chapters of the party on Wednesday over the election of delegates for the governorship primary.

In the guidelines contained in the governorship nomination form, the party mandates aspirants and their supporters “to accept the outcome of the primary and support whoever emerges as the APC candidate.”

The Chairman of the Kebbi State screening committee, Osita Okechukwu, in Abuja disclosed that 44,045 new delegates would elect the APC governorship candidates.
According to him, five delegates will be elected per ward in all of the 8,809 wards in the country for the governorship primary while three new delegates will emerge from each of the 774 local governments for the presidency.

He added, “Those five delegates per ward will go to the state and elect the governorship candidate. We are going to elect three delegates from each of the 774 local governments who will then elect the Presidential candidate.

In Rivers State, the crisis between a former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and a former federal lawmaker, Senator Magnus Abe, heightened the tension in the party ahead of the primary.

Amaechi, Abe factions disagree over congress

Abe is contesting the APC governorship ticket with the Amaechi-backed aspirants, Tonye Cole and Ojukaye Amakiri.

Speaking on the governorship primary, the spokesman for the APC faction backed by Amaechi, Dr Chris Finebone, told The PUNCH that the group was ready for the shadow election.

“Yes, we are very ready for the governorship primary. You know we have concluded the congress. So, we are ready,” he stated.

But a former Chief of Staff of Rivers State Government House and ally of Magnus Abe, Chief Tony Okocha, said no congress was held on Wednesday.

He said ordinarily the delegates that would have emerged in the ward congresses on Wednesday and Thursday were the ones that should have voted in the governorship primary.

“So, you can’t build something on nothing. As far as we are concerned today, no congress was held. And we are contesting that to the high heavens,” Okocha stated.

Amaechi, Abe supremacy battle results in gunshot, chaos

Earlier on Wednesday, heavily armed policemen dispersed the APC members loyal to Abe, who were protesting the alleged hijacking of the state House of Assembly aspirants’ screening and delegates election by Amaechi.

The Abe supporters, who gathered at the state party secretariat along Woji Road, GRA, Port Harcourt, alleged that the national committee members designated to conduct the screening were lodged in a hotel in the metropolis at the instance of Amaechi.

The situation worsened as they marched to the secretariat bearing placards with inscriptions such as, ‘APC Rivers where are our forms’, ‘2019 will repeat itself in Rivers again’ and ‘APC Rivers, no lesson learnt’, among others.

Akponmfet:
Amaechi's tribe is called Ikwere and the whole world knows this.
Take your desperation and frustration to the South East.
You're too desperate to attach to the Niger Delta but we don't like you.

oLAAbEfe:
UGM are now on the run as Nigeria Army begin retaliate

iCauseTrouble:
Come 2023, it is either you are supporting Peter Obi or you are a terrorist

frenzzy2:
bro rest Peter obi no see first 3

abobote:
Me too, I will support anybody that emerges for PDP, except Wike