Rivers State Governor, Barrister Nyesom Wike has redeemed his pledge of $20,000 (N15.6 million) to each player and official of Rivers United Football Club, who won the 2021/2022 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) title. Wike announced the donation during a reception organised last July in Port Harcourt to honour the team for emerging NPFL champions for the first time. The …

The Rivers State government on Friday has sealed the state campaign office of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Located in Port Harcourt, the state capital, the office was sealed on the directive of the state government following a court order. The governor’s Special Assistant on New Media, Mr Kelvin Ebiri said that a state executive …

The Peoples Democractic Party (PDP) has cautioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Jusice Olukayode Ariwoola to be neutal and not dabble in the internal affairs of the political party. Ariwoola had reportedly made the statement on Thursday at a dinner held in his honour by Rivers State Governor, Barrister Nyesom Wike in Port Harcourt. In a statement on Saturday, …

When the stormy petrel governor of Rivers State, Barrister Nyesom Wike threw his 13 percent derivation windfall bombshell last week, his fellow Niger Delta governors must have been gutted, even as ordinary Nigerians within and beyond the oil-producing areas were alarmed. It was a shock to me that some governors can receive such a humongous amount of money in these …

A  group within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on River State Governor Nyesom Wike to give account of all his recent financial donations to members of the G-5 governors of the party. The G-5 governors, led by Wike, have his counterparts in Benue, Oyo, Enugu and Abia States are members. They have repeatedly raised their voice against the …

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike may have set a new precedent in the nation’s political culture with his open endorsement of an opposition Governor in an electoral contest in which his political party has a candidate. Wike, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governor, on Tuesday openly pitched his tent with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, endorsing his Lagos State counterpart for a …

This Wednesday, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, governor of the oil-and-gas-endowed Rivers State, wrote his name in the annals of Nigerian politics and governance. If indeed there was a Nigerian equivalent of the Guinness Book of Records, Wike’s appointment with one stroke of the pen of 28,000 Special Assistants, would qualify as a record-breaking entry. The previous day, Wike appointed 319 Ward …

The campaign by a group within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to have Dr Iyorchia Ayu removed as national chairman might have suffered another blow. Following the vociferous agitation against Ayu by the group led by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, the PDP National Working Committee last month passed a vote-of-confidence on the embattled national chairman, while several leaders defended …

When the row between Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, and his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) spilled onto the streets after the party’s presidential primaries in May, I argued that to solve Wike, one had to first fix the candidate, Atiku Abubakar. In light of Wike’s no-holds-barred interview last Thursday, things may have fallen apart, irretrievably. That interview, perhaps …

An emergency meeting of the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is planned for Thursday to take a decision on the resolve of the group loyal to Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike to pull out of the party’s presidential campaign. On Wednesday in Port Harcourt, the group, which include Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom, his Oyo State counterpart Seyi …