Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has assured the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of the state’s support for any candidate presented by the party for the position of the speaker of the 10th House of Representatives.
Wike made the assertion yesterday, when the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ahmed Wase, led a delegation of other lawmakers on a courtesy call to the Government House, Port Harcourt.
The Rivers governor insisted that those to be nominated as principal officers of the 10th House of Representatives must be individuals with requisite experience to steer the affairs of the legislature.
He explained that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), won eleven out of the thirteen federal constituencies in the state, adding that the lawmakers-elect would back whoever the national leadership of the ruling APC presented as their sole candidate for the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“The way we are now, the truth must be told that we are going to support the leadership of your party at the national level. I am not going to support anybody that is coming from anywhere,” he said.
The governor, however, insisted that only those with requisite experience and have the capacity to stabilise the country should be presented as principal officers of the 10th House of Representatives.
Wase had told the governor that he was in Port Harcourt with his delegation that cut across various political parties, to solicit his support ahead of the election of the Speaker of the 10th House.
“Your excellency, we just finished the national and presidential election, we are about to go into the National Assembly politics and that is why are here to seek your support, to seek your prayers and blessing, by the grace of God so that we can have a unified country, stabilised system,” he said.
