.atiku campaign: GovWike defends revoke of venue approval, says ‘no way they can fill stadium’ | TheCable
February 2, 2023 10:58 PMapproval of the Adokiye Amiesimaka stadium for the Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign rally.The Rivers government had approved the venue for Atiku Abubakar, standard-bearer of the PDP, to use for his presidential campaign rally scheduled to hold on February 11.
over an alleged plot by the Atiku campaign in the state to share the facility with a “violent” faction of the All Progressives Congress .Reacting to the withdrawal of the campaign venue, Abiye Sekibo, director-general of the campaign in Rivers, accused Wike of working for Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate.
Speaking at the rally on Thursday, Wike said the state rescinded its approval to safeguard the facility from vandalism.“Don’t say we stopped them from holding the rally; we didn’t. They applied to me and I gave to them. They now went back and began to meet with the faction of the opposition, and you know that opposition has never held any rally without violence,” he said.
“And I said I cannot joke with Adokiye Amiesimaka stadium. Since we have this intelligence, we will not allow it. Did anybody force us to give them before? Are we not the ones who gave them? Did they pay money? Go and see the place. “I know they are happy because they know there is no way they can fill that stadium. Instead of them to say thank God for covering our shame.”
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