Okocha to Wike: Come over to APC and Lead Us

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt

Worried about their position in the Bola Tinubu-led government, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Rivers State, Mr Tony Okocha, has begged a former governorof the state, Mr Nyesom Wike, to cross over to the party and head the party leadership.
Okocha said the reason was that the APC in Rivers State needed a strong leadership and expressed belief that the former governor has the pedigree to lead the party in the state.

The APC chieftain, who is a former Local Organising Committee Chairman, Tinubu Presidential Campaign Rally in RIvers State, made the call yesterday, during a meeting with members of the party, in Port Harcourt.

He said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not know the quality they have in Wike,and therefore wished that the former governor defected to APC, expressing appreciation in Wike’s role in the emergence of the Tinubu government.
“We won the election because Rivers State is one of the states in Nigeria that delivered Tinubu outright, and in the whole of South-south and South-East, it is only in Rivers State that Tinubu won outright.

“So we have a right of entitlement and our demand is that our right should be handed to Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike. We say so because we are confident that as soon as it gets to him he knows who worked for Tinubu and it will get to us. It is only natural that that is how it will go.

“Suffices again to say that as a party, forward looking, there will be elections in the next couple of months or yet there will be another election in Nigeria, APC is not at the verge of breaking into extinction in Nigeria. But truly, APC in Rivers state is hemorrhaging.

“It does appear to us that the leadership of the PDP in Nigeria does not appreciate the influence, the pedigree that is embedded in Wike. So we are asking and calling on Wike to come over to APC and lead us.”