The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday approved that Rivers State should host the party’s national (presidential) convention ahead of the 2019 general elections. The National Executive Committee of the PDP took the decision after its meeting at Wadata Plaza, the national headquarters of the party, the Punch reports. You May Read: PDP Will Regret If […]
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The governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, has warned that there will be consequences if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) moves its national convention out of Port Harcourt. The national working committee (NWC) of the party had fixed the convention slated for October 6 for Port Harcourt but some of the presidential aspirants kicked against […]
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*Pleads With Wike to Leave Tinubu and Amaechi Out of His Dirty Politics *Pleads with the Riverine, Ijaws, Kalabaris to unite and utilize the opportunity that the candidature of Cole offers The resolve by most of the leaders and stakeholders of the Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to adopt Arch. Tonye […]
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The All Progressives Congress (APC), says it has facts on Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers and the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) move to scuttle the Port Harcourt Constituency 3 bye-election. Mr Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, State Chairman of APC in Rivers also alleged that Wike offered him N200 million bribe to compromise the election, while over time […]
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Former National Spokesperson of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has described the election of Nyesom Wike as Governor of Rivers State in 2015 as a sham, charade, tragic and unfortunate. Eze, who is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and was an ally to Governor Wike when […]
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Former Governor of Rivers State and Minister of Transportation, RT. HON. Rotimi Amaechi, has alleged that Nyesom Wike, the incumbent governor of Rivers state, has been inaugurating projects he completed when he was governor. Recall that Amaechi was governor of Rivers between 2007 and 2015. Speaking during a grand reception organised in his honour by […]
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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has charged the 23 newly elected council chairmen to prudently utilise council funds to pay workers’ salaries and fight insecurity in their areas. Mr Wike gave the charge on Monday in Port Harcourt, the state capital while swearing in the chairmen who emerged victorious in the council poll conducted […]
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Rivers State’s Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC), on Saturday conducted local government elections in the state, an exercise the state governor, Nyesom Wike described as satisfactory. The governor spoke to journalists after participating in the exercise. His reaction came after election observers adjudged the voting process across the 23 local government areas as free and fair. […]
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Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, has alleged that the federal government is plotting to set him up for arms trafficking. Speaking on Sunday during a thanksgiving service in honour of Azubuike Nmerukini, chairman of the state local government service commission, the governor claimed that the All Progressive Congress (APC) is in talks with a […]
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The Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, says governors in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are inaugurating “key projects” unlike their counterparts in the All Progressives Congress (APC) “commissioning wheel barrows, hired tractors and bags of mangoes.” Wike said this on Friday when the newly-constructed governor’s office in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti state, was inaugurated. He said […]
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