Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has hinted that talks with his political allies on the presidential candidate to support in the February 25, 2023 election will soon be concluded.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Wike maintained that the people of the state know their political bearings concerning the general election slated for February 25th and March 11th, 2023.
Governor Wike spoke at St. Martin’s Anglican Church, Omagwa Town, venue of the Local Government Campaign Flag-off Rally of the Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ikwerre Local Government Area (LGA) on Tuesday.
The governor explained that Rivers people have been duly sensitised and told to vote the candidates of PDP for governorship, Senate, House of Representatives and State House of Assembly.
The governor, who urged the people to be calm, maintained that when the final decision of the presidential candidate the state will support will be taken, Rivers electorate will be notified.
“As we finish from here now, you’ll go home and start working before the appropriate time when we will ring the bell.
“When you hear the bell being rang, know that the decision has been taken,” Wike said.
This newspaper reports that the PDP has been enmeshed in crisis after the party’s national convention in May 2022 where former Vice President Atiku Abubakar defeated 12 other aspirants, including Wike, to emerge the party presidential candidate for 2023 elections.
Dissatisfied with the outcome of the primary, Wike and his associates are demanding the replacement of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu with a southerner to correct “regional imbalance” in the PDP since Messrs Atiku and Ayu are both northerners.
Apart from Wike, other governors who are members of the G5 (an alias for the aggrieved governors) are Ifeanyi Ugwanyi (Enugu), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Seyi Makinde (Oyo).
The G5 governors, who were appointed to the PDP presidential campaign council, withdrew their membership and have boycotted PDP presidential rallies.
