The 2023 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tonye Cole, has urged Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to formally join the ruling party and end speculations about his political future.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, Cole said Wike should “leave the PDP for the APC” to avoid confusion and division.
Wike has been at the centre of protracted leadership crisis in the PDP since after the last general election.
The FCT minister claims he belongs to the PDP but has openly worked for the ruling APC.
Cole said Wike’s moving to the APC would strengthen democracy by allowing other political parties to build their structures without interference.
“No, it will not. And the reason being that the only person who has to make, who is left to make a declaration as to where he stands in terms of all of this, is the Minister Nyesom Wike. And where I would implore him to act very, very simple and honorably, is to come and join the APC. Leave the PDP, come and join the APC so that we all know now that we are standing in one block, no division, no confusion, nothing,” he said.
“Everybody is one block. This is where we are, so that we begin to play the dynamics of party politics in the state. Allow PDP to be, allow ADC to be, allow Labour Party to be, allow YPP to be. Let all.. that’s what democracy is about. Let parties form their strength and come into the equation. Once that happens, then we know where we are, but as it is right now, no.”
