Some of the trusted political allies of the Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, have started pitching their tent with the opposition party in the state, the All Progressives Congress, APC.
This is happening at a time when the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is preparing to face the electorate once again in rerun elections following the massive nullifications of federal and state legislative elections by the Court of Appeal.
The latest member of Governor Wike’s kitchen cabinet to jump ship is Ndubuisi Nwankwo who was only last month appointed member of the Governing Council of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, by the Governor.
Ndubuisi Nwankwo who led 87 leaders of the PDP in Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers state into the All Progressives Congress on Sunday was a one time Commissioner for Energy and Natural Resources during Dr. Peter Odili’s administration.
The defecting Nwankwo, an Engineer by profession, and other members of PDP were received by Asita O. Asita, the deputy governorship candidate of the APC.
He praised them for their courage to make the shift as the PDP was no longer capable of leading Nigeria to the expected destination.
Similarly, Chief Matthew Aleru, a stalwart of the PDP in Ikwerre Local Government area and former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Basin Authority has also joined the APC.
Also, Mr Igochukwu Dim who ran for the Emohua/Ikwerre Federal Constituency seat under the PDP has moved with his teeming supporters into the APC.
Some weeks back, Chief Bekinbo Soberekon, a chieftain of the PDP and a two-time Governorship Aspirant who contested in the governorship primaries with Wike and others walked into the state secretariat of the APC to register and obtain a membership card.
The exodus of some leaders of the PDP into the APC in Rivers state despite the avalanche of appointments recently released by Governor Wike may be a fulfilment of an earlier statement by the governorship candidate of the APC, Dr Dakuku Peterside who claimed that 50% of the people Wike was appointing into various offices were already talking with his party on how to dump the PDP.
At the last count the Governor had appointed 30 Special Advisers and 24 Commissioners. Some of the Special Advisers yet to be assigned portfolios are already grumbling over “floating appointments”.
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