Former Rivers State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tonye Cole, has known as on Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to make his political allegiance express.
Talking throughout an interview on Channels Tv’s Politics As we speak on Friday, the Sahara Group co-founder suggested Wike to formally be a part of the APC so as to finish doubts over his loyalties.
Wike, a former Rivers governor, has been on the coronary heart of a deepening management disaster inside the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) because the 2023 normal elections, whereas serving in President Bola Tinubu’s APC-led authorities.
Cole argued that Wike’s defection wouldn’t solely make clear his political stance but in addition strengthen Nigeria’s democracy and convey stability to Rivers State politics.
“Is he (Wike) APC or is he PDP? So far as we all know in the present day, he’s PDP,” Cole mentioned.
“We can’t proceed complicated the citizens in Rivers state and complicated Nigerians as a result of it’s harmful for democracy; that you’re in a single get together, and you’re controlling one other get together.
“The one one that is left to make a declaration as to the place he stands in all of that is the minister, Nyesom Wike.
“The place I’d implore him to behave honourably is to return and be a part of the APC. Depart the PDP, come and be a part of the APC in order that everyone knows now that we’re standing in a single bloc — no division, no confusion, nothing.
“All people is one bloc. That is the place we’re, in order that we start to play the dynamics of get together politics within the state.
“Permit PDP to be, enable ADC to be, enable Labour Social gathering to be, enable YPP to be. That’s what democracy is about.
“Let events type their energy and are available into the equation. As soon as that occurs, then we all know the place we’re.”
Wike has repeatedly insisted that he stays a PDP member regardless of his position within the APC-led administration.
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