NO RIVERS STATE FORMER GOVERNOR HAS SUCCEEDED IN INSTALLING HIS CHOICE AS GOVERNOR OF RIVERS STATE

 

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Since the current political dispensation  began in 1999 to date, Rivers State has not witnessed where the office of the Governor of the state was occupied by the choice of the outgoing executive governor. In 2007, Dr. Peter Odili tried to have Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as his anointed Governorship candidate but having won the Governorship primary election in December 2006, by February 2007 President Olusegun Obasanjo during the flag off of the Governorship campaign in South-South by Peoples Democratic party at Port Harcourt, Amaechi’s governorship candidacy was described as having K-Leg. Certain unexplained infractions led to protracted legal tussle between PDP and Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi who went on self-exile in Ghana until Supreme Court of Nigeria on 25th of October, 2007 ruled that in the eyes of the Law Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi was the Governorship candidate of PDP and not his substitute Barrister Celestine Omehia who never contested the Governorship Primary election’

Again in 2015 as the then incumbent governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi was leaving office, he planted Dr. Adol Dakuku Peterside as his surrogate but like a political Tsunami, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, the then Minister of State for Education of same Ikwerre ethnic nationality with the outgoing Governor appeared on the campaign ground for PDP and won governorship election in a landslide victory that stunned Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.

Now in 2023, will Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike have his way to singlehandedly install his choice of the former Accountant General Siminialaye Fubara of PDP as the duly elected Governor of Rivers state with the exclusion of PDP stakeholders who have left the inner cabal structure of Governor Wike? Only time will tell.