Rivers Govt Revokes Approval Of Stadium For Atiku’s Campaign Rally News
LEADERSHIP reports that the State government had earlier approved the use of the stadium for the February 11, 2013 campaign rally of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in the State.
But, the State Commissioner for Sports, in a letter addressed to the Director-General of the Campaign Council, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, accused the PDP presidential candidate of plotting to hold a joint campaign at the venue with the All Progressives Congress . The letter dated January 31, 2023 and signed by the Commissioner for Sports, Barrister Christopher Green, reads in part: “Credible intelligence available to the Government of Rivers State and recent developments now show that your Presidential Campaign Organization is working in collaboration and in cohorts with a faction of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State led by Tonye Patrick Cole and that it is the intention of your Presidential Campaign Organization to accomplish and share the...
Recall that Governor Nyesom Wike had while speaking during a PDP governorship campaign rally, accused the national leadership of the party of anti-party activities.The governor said: “We have caught them. They are the ones engaged in anti-party. I told them anti-party begets anti party. You know we carried these small parties to court for failing to do what the law says.
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