Today’s Headlines: Rivers Won’t Give PDP Free Votes – Wike, Why I didn’t join PDP – Christopher Imumolen

Rivers Won’t Give PDP Free Votes, Says Wike.

Source: Punch Newspapers.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said votes from the state in the 2023 general election will be put where a concrete reward is guaranteed for such electoral support.

The governor also said his life was in God’s hands, saying anyone or group planning to eliminate him will die first.

Wike revealed that some of his close associates have expressed concerns over his safety, but he has told them not to be bothered because God was on his side.

He spoke at the inauguration of the Etche Campus of the Rivers State University in Abara community of Etche Local Government Area on Tuesday.

The governor said, “At the appropriate time, we will decide on what to do. I want Rivers people to reflect on this because, since 1999, we have brought the highest votes to the Peoples Democratic Party.

“I challenge any state to say they have brought more votes for the PDP. Which state has given more support than Rivers State? Since 1999, show me one federal project in Rivers State. Is there any?

‘’So, if you want our votes, then tell me what you will give Rivers people. Our votes are not for dash anymore.”

Why I didn’t join APC, PDP – Accord’s Imumolen.

Source: Punch Newspapers.

The Accord Party presidential candidate, Prof Christopher Imumolen, has said he shunned both All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party because of their “failures” over the year.

He said he decided to pitch his tent which Accord after careful review of both APC and PDP, which he claimed, failed to deliver dividends of democracy to Nigerians.

According to him, I did not join APC and PDP because of the need to break from a system that has failed to deliver to Nigerians the dividends of democracy in almost two decades of the country’s return to democratic governance.

Imumolen stated this in a statement made available to The PUNCH on Wednesday by his campaign organisation.

“I decided not to join any of these so-called big political parties because I wanted a fresh perspective on governance.

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17 Guber Candidates Meet Wike, Beg Him To Forgive.

Source: Vanguard Newspapers.

As a way of resolving the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), some governorship candidates of the party, on Tuesday met with the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike.

A source from Government House, said the governorship hopefuls from Katsina, Sokoto, Jigawa, Kaduna, and 13 other states met with Wike at his private residence in Rumueprikon, Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the state and appealed to him to support the presidential candidate of the party, Ahaji Atiku Abubakar, his running mate, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, as well as the party’s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu.

The meeting which lasted for about two hours, had it that, Wike was told to forgive Atiku and Ayu.

Buhari Presides Over Hybird FEC Meeting.

Source: The Nation Nigeria.

President Muhammadu Buhari is presiding over the weekly hybrid Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The meeting, which began at 10:00 am, has in attendance Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; the President’s Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari; National Security Adviser, Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno (retd.) and Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folashade Yemi Esan.

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