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Wike Surfaces In APC’s 123-Members Gubernatorial Campaign Council List, Crashes With PDP

Last month, speculation of Wike dumping the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was rife as his name emerged on the list of ministerial nominees…

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Former Rivers State Governor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has surfaced on the list of the 123 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bayelsa State National Gubernatorial Campaign Council.

VerseNews reports that the list of yet to be inaugurated Campaign teams released to newsmen on Tuesday was signed by the National Organising Secretary of the party, Suleiman Mohammed Argungu.

Checks by VerseNews revealed that the FCT Minister’s name equally emerged on the list of campaign teams released by the PDP national secretariat in Abuja.

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Last month, speculation of Wike dumping the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was rife as his name emerged on the list of ministerial nominees sent to the Senate for screening and clearance by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Shortly after his clearance and announcement of his FCT portfolio, the two-term Rivers State governor had claimed that his nomination as Minister-designate enjoyed the blessing of the PDP national leadership.

In his maiden media briefing as FCT Minister, Wike declared that he got the approval of the PDP acting national chairman, Iliya Damagum, to serve in Tinubu’s cabinet.

He said: “They said they’ll sanction me that I took an appointment — that’s ridiculous.
“The president wrote to all the 36 state governors to bring names of people to appoint. Didn’t PDP governors submit names?

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“Every PDP governor wrote a letter and nominated 10 persons for appointment in this (Tinubu’s) government.

“Before this appointment came, I wrote to the national party chairman, minority leader of the House of Representatives and Senate, zonal chairman of the party, my state chairman, and my governor.

“All of them wrote me back: ‘Accept it’. I have it in evidence documented.”

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Further checks revealed that Wike who contributed to the victory of Tinubu in the last February presidential election in Rivers State, with Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, coming second in the south south states, also worked for the victory of APC favoured candidates as presiding officers of the 10th National Assembly.

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