Tinubu, Shettima, and APC Govs visit Wike while Amaechi is absent

Before stepping down to meet Wike at the Government House, Tinubu ran for office in the state.

The All Progressives Congress (APCBola )’s Tinubu and Kashim Shettima paid a visit to Governor Nyesom Wike on Wednesday at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital of Rivers.

APC National Chairman Abdullahi Adamu, as well as Governors Abubakar Bagudu (Kebbi), Babjide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), and Dave Umahi, accompanied the party’s nominee and his running mate (Ebonyi).

Former governors of Ekiti and Edo, Kayode Fayemi and Adams Oshiomhole, as well as Timipre Sylva, the minister of state for petroleum resources, were present at the meeting.

Rotimi Amaechi, a former minister of transportation and governor of the Rivers, notably skipped the conference. Tonye Cole, the APC candidate for governor in Rivers, was also absent from the meeting.

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Before stepping down to meet Wike at the Government House, Tinubu ran for office in the state.

The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) G5 member Wike has had a strained relationship with Atiku Abubakar, the party’s nominee.

The G5 is composed of five PDP governors from southern Nigeria who are dissatisfied, including Wike, Samuel Ortom (Benue), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu).

The five governors have consistently demanded that Iyorchia Ayu resign as PDP national chairman before they will back Atiku’s bid for the presidency.