Former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Tonye Cole, has slammed the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, over his relationship with the ruling APC whereas claiming to be a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Celebration, PDP.
That includes on ‘Politics Immediately’, a programme on Channels Tv on Friday, Cole mentioned Wike mustn’t confuse individuals about his political loyalty.
“Is he APC or is he PDP? So far as we all know in the present day, he’s PDP.
“We can not proceed complicated the citizens in Rivers State and complicated Nigerians as a result of it’s harmful for democracy, that you’re in a single celebration, you might be controlling one other celebration and we are attempting to create a one-party state that could be a combination that no person is evident about,” he mentioned.
DAILY POST recollects that in electioneering for the 2023 presidential election, Wike campaigned for the presidency to maneuver to the South, in opposition to his celebration’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who hails from the North.
The previous Rivers State governor was later appointed as a minister by President Bola Tinubu.
He has expressed help for the second-term bid of the President in several fora.
DAILY POST experiences that on August 30, the APC received 20 out of the 23 councils throughout the native authorities election in Rivers.
The PDP received in three councils, together with Obio/Akpo, the place Wike served because the chairman for 2 phrases in 1999 earlier than he rose to turn out to be a governor, serving in that place from 2015 to 2023.
