Again, Wike snubs PDP, as Atiku campaign train storms Edo
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Atiku campaign train storms Edo, 5 PDP Govs absent

…as Atiku promises to strengthen nation’s educational sector and revive the economy Gov Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his loyalists again snubbed the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Atiku Abubakar as his campaign train stormed Edo State. Govs Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) did

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Gov Wike missing as Atiku, Okowa storm Bauchi, receive 300,000 defectors
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Gov Wike missing as Atiku, Okowa storm Bauchi, receive 300,000 defectors

‘Governors of Bauchi, Bala Mohammed; Adamawa, Umaru Fintiri and that of Taraba, Darius Ishaku and their deputies were also in attendance’ The Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike and his loyalists went missing yesterday as presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar; his running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa; and the party’s national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu

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Reports about Tinubu offering Wike senatorial ticket untrue - Aide
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Reports about Tinubu offering Wike senatorial ticket untrue – Aide

Few hours after Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State addressed a televised media chat in Port Harcourt, his media assistant, Kelvin Ebiri, has come out to deny reports that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, offered his principal senatorial ticket when they met in London, last month. The media had

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PDP Crisis: Gov Wike opens up on how Atiku emerged presidential candidate
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PDP Crisis: Gov Wike opens up on how Atiku emerged presidential candidate

Gov Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Friday opened up on events that led to the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the Peoples Democratic Presidential(PDP) candidate during the primaries. Recall that Wike, who lost the presidential ticket to Atiku in the May primaries, has so far refused to be swayed by entreaties to work with

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Rivers APC lashes out at Wike over scathing remarks against Amaechi
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Rivers APC lashes out at Wike over scathing remarks against Amaechi

The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress(APC) has fired back at Gov Nyesom Wike for labelling his predecessor and former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, a “total failure” for perceived inability to attract development to Rivers in over seven years as minister. This came as prominent South-South leader, His Highness, Anabs Sara-Igbe, lashed

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Nobody Can Stop Me From Speaking Against Injustice in PDP - Gov. Wike
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Nobody Can Stop Me From Speaking Against Injustice in PDP – Gov. Wike

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that the time of reckoning is coming for those who continue to insist that they can take the national leadership in the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). The governor maintained that nobody can silence him from speaking against such injustice and demanding that the right thing be done. Wike spoke

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Party Crises: 17 PDP Guber Candidates meet Wike
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Party Crises: 17 PDP Guber Candidates meet Wike

Ahead the 2023 general elections, seventeen governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) met with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, behind closed doors on Tuesday. The candidates were said to have arrived Port Harcourt at about 8pmand immediately went into the meeting with their host. A source from Government House, Port Harcourt, said the governorship

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Stop making outrageous demand from PDP, former minister tells Wike
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Stop making outrageous demand from PDP, former minister tells Wike

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has urged the Rivers State Governor, Nyeson Wike, to stop making outrageous demands from the party. Babatope who was a former Minister of Transport said the demands allegedly made by Wike that the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku

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