Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has all but concluded plans to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Sources within the Rivers State government told our Reporter that Governor Wike was bitter with the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Wike had shunned Atiku’s emissaries in Turkey only days ago.
Meanwhile, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; his counterpart in Ondo, Rotimi Akeredolu; Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and other chieftains of the APC, on Friday led a delegation to visit Wike in Port Harcourt.
Wike and Atiku haven’t exactly been the best of friends for a while now.
The visiting APC governors were on a mission to woo Wike and other aggrieved PDP members to align with the ruling APC ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Following the division that rocked the PDP after Atiku’s emergence as standard-bearer, there had been reports that APC Presidential candidate Tinubu met Wike in France.
Tinubu’s team had denied that that meeting took place.