Nigeria: Don't Field Wike As Guber Candidate, Group Warns PDP

21 March 2014

Port Harcourt — PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP in Rivers State, has been warned not to field the Supervising Minister of Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, as its candidate in year's governorship poll.

Some members of the party, under the aegis of Rivers PDP Third Force Movement, in a statement in Port Harcourt, said since Wike hails from the same Ikwerre ethnic nationality with Governor Chibuike Amaechi, other ethnic groups in the state will not want to support another Ikwerre man to take over from Amaechi.

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