Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has confirmed that members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in Oyo and his state supported the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, who contested the presidential election on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), to win the just concluded poll in the country.
Governor Wike said that the massive votes polled by Tinubu from Rivers and Oyo states were decisions made by him and Governor Seyi Makinde, who was the youngest among the five aggrieved PDP governors popularly called the G-5.
He noted that the five governors’ inability to resolve their differences with the PDP standard-bearer, Atiku Abubakar, and chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, was a major reason they decided to form an alliance with APC as well as Labour Party before the presidential election in their states.
The governor, who disclosed this on Friday while commissioning the Omololu Olunloyo airport road in Ibadan, Oyo state capital, stressed that the verbal agreement between them and the opposition parties ended after the just concluded presidential election.
Governor Wike, who commended Governor Makinde on the project, appealed to the people of Oyo State to cast their votes for governor in order to complete all ongoing projects across the state.
The governor’s role was also confirmed by the ruling party, APC, while analysing the outcome o the presidential election in Rivers, describing Wike as a true democrat.
The Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, of APC added that Wike was instrumental to the victory of its candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Rivers State.
The PCC in Port Harcourt, the state capital, said without the efforts of the governor that their Candidate would not have secured up to the 25% vote which is the constitutional requirement expected from the state.
Speaking, a member of the PCC and the leader of the Independent Campaign Council, ICC, in the state, Tony Okocha, commended the governor for the support that has given the party victory first time in the state since 2015.
Okocha said: “Saying Wike was key to the victory of our Candidate Tinubu is an understatement. The governor was instrumental to our victory 1million times.
“He told Rivers people to vote someone that will support the state. He mobilised human beings and resources to ensure this victory. We commend him.