Wike Threatens To Cancel Atiku’s Campaign Venue In Rivers

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Wike Threatens To Cancel Atiku’s Campaign Venue In Rivers

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has threatened to

cancel the approval for the use of Adokiye Amiesimaka

Stadium in Port Harcourt for the campaign of the Peoples

Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku

Abubakar.

Wike said the Director-General of the Presidential Campaign

Council (PCC) in the state, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, had been

accessing the venue a month before the February 11 date

The governor explained that the approval, which was granted

at no cost to the PCC, stated that the stadium wod be

accessible to the council 48 hours to the rally.

Wike, who disclosed these on Friday while speaking at the

campaign flag-off rally of the Rivers State PDP Campaign

Council in Oyigbo Local Government Area, said Sekibo has no

right to take possession of the stadium one month before the

date of the stipulated event.

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Wike warned Sekibo not to provoke the Rivers State

government by desperately wanting to take possession of the

state-owned stadium weeks to the campaign, or else the

approval would be cancelled.

He said, “Let me also use this opportunity to warn Abiye

Sekibo, we have made approval for your presidential

candidate to use Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, February 11th,

you have no right to begin to go to the stadium now. We

cannot give you access to the stadium now. We can only give

you access to the stadium two days to the occasion for you to

prepare.

“Nobody gave you one month. So, if you dare it again, to go

and force yourself into the stadium, I will cancel the approval

with immediate effect. Dare it again, I will cancel it. Heaven

will not fall. In fact, if heaven falls now, we will be happy that it

was in our time heaven came down.

“I know you are not ready to do that rally. You are only looking

for excuse. But you must do it. I know you are going to import

people, no problems, go and import. We have given you the

stadium.”

Governor Wike also took a swipe at the All Progressives

Congress (APC) in Rivers State for blaming the crisis that

greeted the campaign of its governorship candidate in Mile

one Diobu, Port Harcourt on Thursday.

The governor stressed that APC became a victim to the

brewing crisis between the two factions in Rumuwoji

community because they did not address its demand

adequately.

Governor Wike wondered why APC did not encounter crisis

with their rallies when they used the Tipper Park in Etche

Local Government and the IYM secretariat in Ikwerre LGA.

The governor asked the opposition party in the state to stop

complaining if it was not ready for the forthcoming general

elections, saying the PDP in the state was fully prepared.