PDP To Lose 25-year Grip of Rivers State, As LGA Chairmanship, Councilorship Aspirants Picks APP Nomination Forms

Some known  member of Peoples Democratic Party PDP from Oyibo LGA Has accompanied a chairmanships candidate Hon. Dr. Gift Okere, alongside Stakeholders, Councilorship aspirants, supporters, friends, and well-wishers, to the party secretariat of the Action People’s Party (APP)  to return his interest/nomination form at the Party’s state secretariat port harcourt.

Oyigbo Chairmanship aspirant and their supporters were earlier today seen taking pictures in front of the APP Scretairates this may be connected to the unofficial political configuration of Rivers State of Governor Siminalayi Fubara reportedly directed all 23 local government chairmen in the state to contest the forthcoming local government elections on the platforms of the All People’s Party (APP).

This Wednesday new direction and move to the APP came after Governor Fubara and his loyalists were sidelined in the struggle for control of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP after they were denied forms to partake in the congresses that produced the new structure of the party in the state.The development meant that control of the PDP in Rivers State was vested on Mr Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT

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The decision comes in the wake of Governor Fubara losing control of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) structure in Rivers State to former governor and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.

The development meant that loyalists of Governor Fubara would not be favoured to be enrolled as candidates of the PDP in the local government election due on October 5, 2024.

that the apparent nod to the local government chairmen by Fubara to contest on the platform of the APP is a remarkable shift in the politics of Rivers State and could break the 25-year grip of the PDP on the state.