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The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has kept mum on his recent meeting with his Ebonyi State counterpart, Dave Umahi.
Recall that on Saturday, governor Umahi arrived in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers state capital and met with Wike at 9pm in what is called “a friendly and brotherly visit”.
Umahi’s visit makes it the first meeting with Wike after he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2020 following an alleged dissatisfaction with the party.
The Ebonyi governor had claimed that he dumped the party over an alleged injustice meted out to the South East region by the PDP.
Reacting to Umahi’s claims, Governor Wike accused his colleague of lying against the PDP and creating the impression that the opposition party was unjust and unfair.
Wike claimed that Umahi was angry with the PDP for choosing Peter Obi as the running mate to the party’s 2019 Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
The two governors have been engaged in a war of words since Umahi’s defection to the ruling party…
