The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, said on Thursday that Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate for their party, had been thwarted by Rotimi Amaechi, Tonye Cole, and his predecessor as governor.
In a state broadcast, Wike said that Rotimi Amaechi and his protege Tonye Cole aggressively resisted the call for a power shift to the South and worked against their party’s presidential candidate in Rivers State.
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“When the President-Elect emerged as the winner, Tonye Cole rushed to congratulate him on his Instagram handle but deleted the post when he was criticised…”
Prior to Saturday’s gubernatorial and state assembly elections, Wike continued to blame his predecessor, stating that Amaechi and the APC had planned to invade and interfere with the voting process in Rivers. He said that the security services had been informed of this plot.
In addition, Wike charged that his predecessor “failed for eight years as Governor of Rivers State” and “could not bring any single development project to Rivers State for seven years” as the minister of transportation.
