Presidential Poll: Why Wike Supported Tinubu – Rivers PDP Chairman
Leader of All Progressives Congress in Rivers State and Coordinator of 48 support APC groups, Mr Tony Okocha, has said the party will be voting PDP candidate, Sim Fubara as governor of Rivers State on Saturday.
Okocha who said this when the APC groups met with the leadership of the opposition party in Port Harcourt on Wednesday said the decision to support Fubara is to reciprocate the support Governor Nyesom Wike gave to the candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu, during the last presidential election.
Chairman of PDP in Rivers, Ambassador Desmond Akawo, said his party supported Tinubu because it wanted power to return to the south.
He said, “Why we supported Asiwaju was for power to return to the South. Whether Asiwaju or Peter Obi, for us the next President must be a southerner in the spirit of equity.
“Again, Rivers State is reconnected again to the federal government. Within the last eight years it has been a war. Rivers State has been at loggerheads with the Federal government and we said, no this war cannot continue. So for us in Rivers, he (Wike) has reconnected us back to the mainstream of governance in this country.
“So, in that same spirit of equity, Rivers State having elected a governor from Rivers West through Peter Odili, Rivers East through Ameachi and Wike, we said power should go to Rivers South East and to riverine parts of Rivers South East, since all the governors have been from the upland.
“So in the next 72hours Rivers State will elect the youngest governor in Nigeria, in the person of Sim Fubara, for a better succession plan. Lagos State is succeeding because it has a better succession plan, from Asiwaju to Babatunde Fashola to the incumbent governor of Lagos State. Sim is a man who understands Rivers State.”
