2023: APC Govs Akeredolu, Fayemi, Sanwo-Olu woo PDP’s Wike in Rivers

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The ruling APC Governors Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, met with PDP's Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike at his private residence in his state, with former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose, also of PDP in attendance, on Friday, July 8, 2022

By Marvellous Nyang

Three governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on Friday, July 8, 2922, met with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governor Nyesom Wike behind closed-door at his private residence in Rivers State.

The details of Wike’s meeting with the APC Governors Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, with former PDP’s former Governor Ayodele Fayose in attendance, was not made public.

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Arrival at Governor Nyesom Wike’s residence … on Friday, July 8, 2022

However, feelers had it that, the discussions were centred around the 2023 presidential election, among relevant issues bothering on how to secure victory for the presidential aspiration of the APC candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Rivers being one of the catchment states with the largest voting population in the South-Eastern region.

Governor Wike is a dogged leader in his PDP, the party he has not left for another in the past 23 years of the present democratic dispensation, which he even boasted of at the last party’s conversion that produced Atiku Abubakar as the PDP presidential candidate where he (Wike) was an aspirant.

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As a PDP stalwart, though Wike is expected to support his party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar after he was not announced as the Vice Presidential candidate by the party’s standard-bearer, information has it that Wike had been cold over the situation and had contemplated leaving the party.

Consequent to the development, APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Tinubu, was said to have met with Wike in France last week, a report the Tinubu media office had denied, saying the purported meeting was never held.