By EMEKA CHIKWE, Port-Harcourt – Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has urged the new board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) not to give projects to political contractors, but to competent ones who would deliver quality and enduring work. Governor Wike gave the advice in a statement issued...
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Governor Nyesom Wike of River State on Wednesday apologised to former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, for supporting the re-election of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State in September 2020. Wike tendered the apology to Oshiomhole at the inauguration of the Rumuepirikom Flyover in...
Mr Ifedayo Adedipe, Ondo Central Senatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has admonished the national chairman of the party, Iorchia Ayu, to relinquish his position in the interest of the party. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers and four other...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has increased the number of his newly appointed special assistants on political units to 200, 000. The Governor, while inaugurating the last batch of the 100,000 appointees at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Omagwa in Ikwerre Local Government Area on Friday, said he decided to...
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers has vowed to resign from office if anyone could prove he promised to make him his successor. Wike said this at a state dinner banquet held to celebrate the conferment of distinguished award on infrastructure delivery on him by President Muhammadu Buhari. He said...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday congratulated Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on the conferment of the presidential Distinguished Award in Infrastructure Delivery on him. The party congratulated Wike in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba in Abuja....
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) owes Nigerians an explanation and an apology following some rather controversial statements made by Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of the party. Atiku had on Sunday in Kaduna asserted that the north does not need Yoruba...
Gov.Nyesom Wike of Rivers, on Wednesday, approved the sum of N1 billion for emergency relief for flood victims in the state. Wike announced this in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr Kelvin Ebiri, in Port Harcourt. He said that the amount was to enable the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticized the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, describing the its presidential campaign flag-off of Atiku Abubakar as a “disaster foretold”. The APC spokesperson for the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, stated this in a statement issued on...
The vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Delta’s Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa says the crisis within the party would soon be resolved. Okowa made the declaration in Abuja on Saturday after a meeting with the Acting Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Sen. Adophus Wabara. He...
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi met with Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike in Port Harcourt on Friday. The meeting was held behind closed doors at the private residence of Mr Wike. The duo have previously met in Port Harcourt more than once in the past months....
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and other dignitaries were present on Thursday when President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated a new complex for the Body of Benchers in Abuja. The Chairman of the Body Of Benchers, Wole Olanipekun (SAN), said the Rivers State Government under the leadership of Wike donated...
A man whose life ambition eluded him deserves sympathy. Days ago, the governor of Rivers state Nyesom Wike held a national press conference on the crisis he is visiting on his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He said not much that was new. But he re-emphasised that his...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has blamed the lingering crisis within the camp of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the failure to zone the party’s presidential ticket to a particular region. Fielding questions from select journalists during a chat on Friday in Rivers State, he stated that...
Leaders and elders of the Peoples Democratic Party in Nasarawa State have urged Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers and other aggrieved members of the party to sheath their swords and unite to win the 2023 general elections. They made the called in a statement jointly signed by Abdulkarim Usman,...
Prince Michael Ekamon, the 1st plaintiff in a suit filed in conjunction with Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers against Atiku Abubakar, has said that their lawyer, Wilfred Okoi, was not in court because he was indisposed. Ekamon told Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday,...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, rebuked his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday, when he described the former Minister of Transportation as a “total failure” who no longer has access to Aso Villa in Abuja. “This should be the last time that you (Amaechi) will talk about this state because...
Mr Charles Aniagwu, Spokesman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, says sacking the party National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, would have deepened the party’s crisis. Aniagwu stated this on Saturday in a Television programme monitored in Asaba, while giving reasons why the PDP was exploring other options toward resolving its...
The Presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has pledged that he would meet the expectations of the party and Nigerians when elected president in 2023. Abubakar made the promise during his remarks at the PDP 97 National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Thursday....
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike on Thursday insisted that Iyorchia Ayu must step down as the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party. Wike said the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, told him in person when he won the May primary that Ayu must vacate his position as...