2023: The real reason I closed Atiku’s Port Harcourt campaign headquarters, according to Wike
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said why he closed the Port Harcourt office of the Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party two months before the election.
Due to the campaign office’s unapproved location in Port Harcourt, according to Wike, he had to close it down.
The governor claimed that in order to provide legal backing for the sealing off of the campaign office, he invoked Executive Orders 21 and 22.
At the opening of the 17.2-kilometer-long Bori-Kono Road in the Baen community of Khana Local Government Area of the state, he made this announcement.
According to him, “Maeba and Abiye went to Igboukwu Street, D-Line (Port Harcourt) without the sanction of the government to site a political office a few days ago.
“We’re referring to Executive Orders 21 and 22, which have been replaced by the bill that the State House of Assembly passed. The Port Harcourt council chairman was not sent to bring down the building.We are in control.
Iyorchia Ayu, the national chairman of the PDP, won’t step down so that a southerner can take his place. This has caused an internal crisis in the party.
Wike is unhappy with the PDP’s leadership because the top positions in the party change so often.
The PDP ignored the southern region of the nation by allocating its presidential ticket and National Chairman to the North.
In order to do this, Wike and the integrity movement have pushed for the resignation of Ayu as the PDP’s national chairman.
