Former Chief of Staff to the Rivers State Government and stalwart of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Tony Okocha, has urged President Bola Tinubu to concede the ministerial appointment of Rivers State to former Governor Nyesom Wike.
According to him, Wike was instrumental to Tinubu’s victory in the February 25 presidential election.
According to him, following the fact that “both Abe and Amaechi never supported the president during the election, they do not deserve to reap from his victory.”He recalled that prior to the party’s presidential primary election, the APC in Rivers was in crisis, adding that the Abe-led faction which he belonged to then supported the president during the election.
Okocha explained: “There’s no politician living in Rivers today that can challenge Wike. We have said that whatever is due to us in Rivers, should be handed over to Wike because he knows those people who worked for Tinubu. “For Amaechi, you saw when he accused the INEC chairman of working for Tinubu. Amaechi claimed that INEC chairman worked under Wike when he was a minister. In other words, everything that was in favor of Tinubu was an anathema to Amaechi. He worked for Atiku
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