The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has asserted that during the presidential campaign, he never opposed Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress.According to Wike, he supported the country's power shifting from the north to the south, which is why he never opposed Tinubu or Obi.The governor declared himself to be an "apostle" of Nigeria's southern region as the new center of power.He spoke at the opening of the Chokocho-...

Barely 24 hours before the presidential election, the North has been accused of systematically betraying the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.Deji Adeyanju, a social media influencer, said most Northern religious leaders have dumped Tinubu for the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.The socio-political activist disclosed this in a series of tweets.Adeyanju linked the current trend to the...

The insinuation that the aggrieved governors of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, also known as the G-5, may unanimously back a Southern presidential candidate has been put to rest.The G-5, comprising Governors Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, and Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, had vowed not to support the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.The governors fell out with the f...