2023: Rivers APC claims Gov Wike in talks to work for Tinubu’s election

The All Progressives Congress (APC) chapter in Rivers State has claimed that the state’s governor, Nyesome Wike, is courting the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The party advised the governor to watch his conduct in the state while claiming that discussions with Wike, a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are still unresolved.
In reaction to Wike’s Sunday claim that some politicians in the state were recruiting thugs and other criminals to assist them win the 2023 election, the APC issued the warning in a statement through its spokesman Chris Finebone.

Any hotel that welcomed a gathering of these MPs would be destroyed, according to a warning from Wike.

Finebone said in his statement, that Wike’s “predicament has not been helped by the inconclusive outcome of his offer to work for the Presidential Candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, in exchange for a safe landing and protection after the 2023 general election having been convinced that Tinubu will defeat Atiku Abubakar of his party, the PDP.

He continued, that “as Wike presses on with courting the APC to secure protection after the 2023 general elections, a close ally of the APC Presidential Candidate, Gov Sanwo-Olu of Lagos and other APC stalwarts will be in Rivers State this week to either commission projects undertaken by Gov. Wike or flag off others”.

The party further warned Wike against demolishing any hotel, recreational facility, or other property owned by any of its members in the state.

Speaking further, Finebone warned that “Wike will bring upon himself apocalypse of immense proportions,” if he attempts to demolish any hotel, leisure places or any property of its member in Rivers State under any guise whatsoever.

The party said that Wike’s panic after losing out on the presidential and later vice presidential nominations of his party, the PDP, led to the accusation that there was a conspiracy by parties to destabilize Rivers State.

It further accused Wike of committing financial and other atrocities as the governor of Rivers State for two terms ending on May 29, 2023, and as the former Minister of Education.

“The APC in Rivers State has news for Governor Wike. He is not in any position to demolish the hotel, leisure places or any property of any APC member in Rivers State under any guise whatsoever.

“This message should sink in adequately. It is absolutely the choice of his party members to let him repeat his jungle justice on them as the world witnessed during the last pandemic high noon.

“The anarchy Wike will bring upon himself should he attempt it against any APC member will assume the dimension of an apocalypse of immense proportions. We hope the governor takes this warning seriously.

“We want the governor to realize that his time is fast winding up. He should accept this fact and not exacerbate his fate as power and immunity depart from him in a matter of months,” Rivers APC said in the statement.