The All Progressives Congress, APC, held its Presidential Primaries across the 319 wards of Rivers State Friday without any reported incidents. According to reports collated at the APC State Secretariat, 63 Aba Road, Port Harcourt by the Presidential Primaries Returning Officer for Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, a total of 388,653 party members […]
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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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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly secured a court warrant to arrest four officials of the Rivers government over an alleged N117 billion suspicious transaction. The anti-graft agency is investigating the transaction of the said sum which was supposedly withdrawn over the counter in the last three years. The EFCC had invited […]
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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 Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, said its attention has been drawn to a strange and erroneous impression being promoted in the media based on ignorance and/or mischief that the leader of APC in Rivers State and Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has ‘appointed’ Arc. Tonye Dele Cole as […]
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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 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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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the 23 chairmanship positions in the Rivers council election. Chukwunenye Uriri, chairman of Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC), announced the result of the poll on Sunday. Describing the exercise as free, fair and bereft of violence, he said voting commenced in all the units at about 8am […]
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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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