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Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt
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Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, said on Thursday that anybody jostling to be president of Nigeria would need to secure votes in Rivers to combine with either Kano or Lagos to emerge victorious.
Such pivotal position, he said, established the importance of Rivers State in the political scheme of the country.
Wike spoke at the grand finale of the Peoples Democratic Party Local Government Election Campaign at Ulakwo in the Etche Local Government Area.
“I keep telling the Peoples Democratic Party that no state has given more votes to the party than Rivers; and it is only in Rivers, in the whole of South-South, that the All Progressives Congress didn’t get 25 per cent votes in 2019 general elections.
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The Chief Medical Director of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Prof. Henry Ugboma, has alleged that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State tried to malign his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi.
Prof. Ugboma who was a former member of Wike’s transition committee said the governor mandated them to put together things that will destroy the former governor.
Speaking in an interview on Arise TV, Ugboma alleged that the directive was one of the reasons he left the Peoples Democratic Party.
He further claimed Wike’s mandate was to deny Amaechi the chance of serving in President Buhari’s cabinet.
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Published 13 April 2021
Published 13 April 2021
A member of Wike’s transition committee, now Chief Medical Director of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Prof. Henry Ugboma, has accused the Rivers State Governor of setting an agenda to discredit his predecessor and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.
Speaking on
Arise TV programme on Monday, Ugboma stated that tarnishing Amaechi’s image was Wike’s number one agenda even before his inauguration as governor of the state.
Ugboma said, “I can rightly tell you that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has this paranoid issue against the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. I noticed this as a member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party and that was one of the reasons I left the party.