2023: Wike Drops Fresh Hint On Preferred Presidential Candidate

• Wike has dropped a fresh update on the preferred presidential candidate to support.

• Wike has hinted that talks with his political allies on the presidential candidate to support will soon be concluded.

• The governor explained that Rivers people have been duly sensitised and told to vote for the PDP governorship candidate.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has hinted that talks with his political allies on the presidential candidate to support in the forthcoming 2023 general election will soon be concluded.

Wike maintained that the people of the state know their political bearings concerning the general election slated for February 25th and March 11th, 2023.

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Governor Wike spoke at St. Martin’s Anglican Church, Omagwa Town, the venue of the Local Government Campaign Flag-off Rally of the Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ikwerre Local Government Area (LGA) on Tuesday.

The governor explained that Rivers people have been duly sensitised and told to vote for the candidates of PDP for governorship, Senate, House of Representatives and State House of Assembly.

The governor, who urged the people to be calm, maintained that when the final decision of the presidential candidate the state will support will be taken, the Rivers electorate will be notified.

“As we finish from here now, you’ll go home and start working before the appropriate time when we will ring the bell.

“When you hear the bell being rang, know that the decision has been taken,” Wike said.

PDP has been enmeshed in crisis after the party’s national convention in May 2022 where former Vice President Atiku Abubakar defeated 12 other aspirants, including Wike, to emerge as the party presidential candidate for the 2023 elections.

Dissatisfied with the outcome of the primary, Wike and his associates are demanding the replacement of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu with a southerner to correct “regional imbalance” in the PDP since Messrs Atiku and Ayu are both northerners.

Apart from Wike, other governors who are members of the G5 (an alias for the aggrieved governors) are Ifeanyi Ugwanyi (Enugu), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Seyi Makinde (Oyo).

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The G5 governors, who were appointed to the PDP presidential campaign council, withdrew their membership and have boycotted PDP presidential rallies.

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