With about two months to the presidential election, Governor
Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has explained why he shut down the Peoples
Democratic Party Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign office in Port Harcourt.
Wike said he sealed-off the campaign office because it was
sited in Port Harcourt without government approval.
The Governor said he evoked Executive Orders 21 and 22 to
give legal support to the sealing-off of the campaign office.
He disclosed this at the inauguration of the 17.2
kilometres-long Bori-Kono Road in Baen community of Khana Local Government Area
of the State.
According to him, “A few days ago, Maeba and Abiye went to
Igboukwu Street, D-Line (Port Harcourt) without the approval of the government
to site a political office.
“We are talking about Executive Orders 21 and 22 that have
now been taken over by the law passed by the State House of Assembly. We did
not send the chairman of Port Harcourt council to go and bring it (the
building) down. We have the power.”
The PDP has been embroiled in an internal crisis over the
failure of the party’s national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, to resign his position
to pave the way for a southerner.
Wike is aggrieved with the PDP’s leadership due to the
rotation of key positions in the party.
PDP zoned its presidential ticket and the National Chairman
to the North, while sidelining the Southern part of the country.
To this end, Wike and the integrity group have been
agitating for the removal of Ayu as the PDP’s National Chairman.
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