…..counters Ayu’s statement on G5 governor’s visit
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Rivers State Government has re-issued the approval for the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to use the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in the state to host its presidential campaign rally.
The State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike made this known Tuesday at a Rally of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Ogu/ Bolo Local Government Area of the state
Wike said the stadium was reapproved after pleas by many personalities.
The State Government had on January 31 withdrawn the initial approval of February 11 on the grounds that credible intelligence and recent development show that the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation is working in collaboration with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers.
The government said the withdrawal was based on understanding that the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation was intending to share the facility with the APC whose activities are characterised by violence and destruction.
Wike faulted the comment by the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu that a member of the G5 visited Ayu saying the claim was false as no member of the group of five PDP governors advocating for the Southern Chairmanship of the party would visit Ayu.
The governor said nobody can blackmail the G5 governors to drop the political advocacy, because it is a fight they must surely win insisting that no man can chase them away from the party they built.
The G5 governors, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, Okezie Ikpeazu, Samuel Ortom, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and Seyi Makinde have consistently demanded the resignation of Ayu as a precondition for supporting Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP.
