The race to the 2023 elections has been filled with enough subplots and intrigues capable of creating a blockbuster TV show; at the centre of this unfolding political game is Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.
Wike’s disaffection with the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been the dominant topic of discourse amongst political followers with some predicting an eventual implosion of the party heading into the polls.
However, what is unknown to a lot of people is the behind-the-scenes alliances amongst politicians across the two major political parties — the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the PDP.
There are strong indications that Wike, unsatisfied with how he has been treated in the PDP, coupled with the refusal of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and its leadership to give heed to his call for the removal of Iyorchia Ayu as PDP national chairman, may just be hatching a plot that would see him transfer his support to the…
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