When Dutch Ambassador Robert Petri was in Port Harcourt recently supporting the HYPREP clean-up but suggesting it be finished before the elections the current PDP Rivers State Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike said: 'each time there is an election Ogoni kingdom will come up and when the election is over the issue is over...
The top two contenders are Kwankwaso and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar who is favoured by Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike...
With 2019 gubernatorial nominations fast approaching Amaechi's former friend and APC ally Magnus Ngei Abe – the federal Senator for Rivers South-East – is siding with the current PDP Governor of Rivers Ezenwo Nyesom Wike...
Rivers State Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike who at 50 is a younger leading figure in the PDP has his own ideas about who the party should pick as its presidential flagbearer...
Top PDP officials such as Rivers state governor Nyesom Wike are trying to lure top politicians from the APC to defect...
Locally the polls pitted two of the State's strongmen against each other – Rotimi Amaechi and Ezenwo Nyesom Wike...
His fiercest opponent for that project is Nyesom Wike who won the Rivers governorship last year for the PDP and is the party's most powerful figure in the Delta...
Of those untroubled by the courts state governors such as Peter Ayodele 'Ayo' Fayose in Ekiti or Ezenwo Nyesom Wike in Rivers are combative local populists but with little national appeal...
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Abe who faces a tough rerun election for his seat on 19 March accused State Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike of paying local militants to kill him...
Yet with the PDP Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike's mandate in Rivers State upheld in the High Court with Timipre Sylva (who went over from the PDP to the governing All Progressives Congress) a sore loser to the PDP's Henry Seriake Dickson in Bayelsa with a protracted war with Boko Haram with inter-communal violence between Sunni Muslims and the Shiite minority in the north and with renewed tension in the Middle Belt the Presidency has signalled that it intends to leave the rump PDP faction in place for now...
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The victory of Ezenwo Nyesom Wike candidate for Jonathan's People's Democratic Party in March's gubernatorial election in Rivers State has been contested in the courts and there will be a rerun...
