Governor Nyesom Wike on Tuesday said he has again granted approval to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to use Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Port Harcourt, for its Rivers presidential campaign rally scheduled to hold on February 11, 2023.
Wike had cancelled approval it earlier granted the PDP Presidential Campaign Council to use the stadium for its rally over claims that the PDP Presidential Campaign Council of collaborating with the All Progressives Congress (APC), which is in opposition in Rivers.
Speaking during the Rivers State PDP campaign rally in the Degema Local Government Area last week, Wike said the action by the government is in the interest of the state.
Wike said intelligence report at the disposal of the state government, indicated that the PDP Presidential Campaign Council is to share the use of the facility with the APC, whose activities he said, has been characterised by violence and destruction.
But Wike, on Tuesday said he has changed his mind over the issue after some people he did not mention appealed to him.
“This morning after appeal from people who talked to me, I have given them back Adokiye Amiesimaka. Go and campaign.
“Let it not be that because they didn’t campaign that is why they didn’t win in Rivers State.”
