Ogona Anita
A prominent member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Mr. Princewill Dike, has urged President Bola Tinubu to see the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, as most qualified politician for his 2027 Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) Director-General.
Dike, a Port Harcourt-based legal practitioner, stated this in Port Harcourt on Monday, expressing confident that, Wike, a former governor of Rivers State, has the political capacity to campaign and ensure Tinubu’s reelection in the 2027 general elections.
He emphasized that the FCT minister had even as a governor demonstrated his political ingenuity in displacing his political opponents, declaring that as Director-General of PCC, Tinubu’s reelection is guaranteed.
The lawyer, who is a strong political associate of the minister, boasted that, with Wike, as Tinubu’s campaign director general, other presidential candidates would find the game tough.
Mr. Dike stated: “I have hitherto asserted that should the political wonder boy of Rivers State, Wike, became PBAT’s re-election Presidential Campaign Council DG, his opponents would be in trouble.”
He highlighted reasons Wike is most qualified to lead the All Progressives Congress (APC) PCC.
“He has a humongous political network across the wider spectrum of the federation. He knows how to generate the campaign funds without disturbing Mr. President.
“Rather than embezzle campaign funds as usually the case, he will even add his own money. He will even work 24 hours criss-crossing the length and breadth of the states to achieve results.
“Wike knows the right politicians who can deliver. He is widely loved by Nigerians, particularly the youths.”
Dike further added: “Recently, he delivered the FCT Area Council election candidates to the APC. Even as a PDP member; the only one won by the PDP was under his rainbow coalition alliance. Senator Ereti Kingibe did not win even in her unit!
“He is a goal getter with the unction of the Midas touch, anything he touches turns gold.”
“It is, therefore, my fervent prayer that P-BAT should cherry pick the star boy of his administration, Minister Wike, to be the Presidential Campaign Council DG of his re-election.”
According to him, in 2014, a renowned lawyer, Odein Ajumogobia, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said he withdrew from the 2015 gubernatorial race of Rivers State under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), because “Wike knew politics at the tip of his fingers, as he himself knew the law at the tip of his fingers.”
He chronicled Wike’s political victories in the state, which included defeating the incumbent governor in 2015, where his candidate lost the governorship election; also defeating a powerful minister in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and Director-General, Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), APC, in 2019, where his party (APC) did not win any elective seat in Rivers.
Dike added: “In 2023 general elections, Governor Wike (as he then was), who was a thorn in Buhari’s flesh cum his administration, delivered his successor and all the elective seats in Rivers State, including Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was of an opposing political party.”
