I’ll Announce My Preferred Candidates In January – Wike Vows

Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers state, has pledged to make his preferred candidate for the upcoming general election in 2023 public in January.

Wike revealed this at the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers’ launching of the tenth flyover.

“From January next year, I will campaign to my people whom they will vote for. So all of you who have been in suspense, saying all manner of things and abusing me, wait January has come”, he said.

Recall that Wike had previously rejected Iyorchia Ayu’s chairmanship following the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primary election that he had lost to Atiku Abubakar.

In order to support Atiku’s bid for the presidency in 2023, Wike and the other four PDP governors (the G5) have requested that Ayu resign so that a southerner may take over as party chairman.