By Michael Adeshina
Nyesom Wike, who is yet to resign his membership from PDP, has been appointed as a member of All Progressives Congress Campaign Council for Bayelsa State governorship election.
PDP had early in the month inaugurated a 72 man campaign Council team for the state chaired by Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas, with Nyesom Wike also as a member.
His inclusion in APC campaign council was confirmed via a circular released on Tuesday.
Wike, while serving as the Governor of Rivers State, was the leader of the PDP G5 aggrieved governors who worked against the party during the 2023 presidential election.
Before then, he had differences with the Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri over the governor’s alleged refusal to support his (Wike) presidential ambition during the PDP primaries last year.
Wike, who has just been rewarded by President Bola Tinubu led Government as the Minister of FCT for his support for APC during the presidential election, also did not attend the inauguration of the PDP campaign Council in Bayelsa.
It is now left to be seen who he will support in the Bayelsa governorship election.
The APC also listed Gombe Governor Inuwa Yahaya as the chairman of the party’s governorship campaign council in Bayelsa with Defence Minister, Abubakar Badaru; Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, as co-chairmen.
Ogun Governor Dapo Abiodun will also lead the 135-member campaign council for the Kogi Governorship election.
The council has three co-chairmen – Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, his Niger State counterpart, Umar Bago, and Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State.
For the Imo election, the APC named Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River State as the chairman of the council. The co-chairmen are the governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Nwifuru; Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu; and Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha.
