Wike, 27 Rivers Lawmakers Not APC Members – APC Chairman

Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), in Rivers State, Dr Tony Okocha, has said the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike is not a member of the APC. He told journalists yesterday in Abuja that the 27 Rivers lawmakers currently in a bitter political struggle with Governor Siminalayi Fubara were also not members of the APC. He said: “People say Wike has decamped to the APC.

They also say that the 27 lawmakers currently fighting with Fubara have defected to the APC. “I need to make this clear to everyone. Much as I wish to have them in my fold, none of them has agreed to join us.



“I am the one that should know if they did. But, clearly, they have not. “What the lawmakers did was a political gimmick.

I tried to woo them, but they kept vacillating and did not. “To defect, they must go to their wards, register and get their membership cards. None of them has done that.

” Okocha was particularly categorical in declaring that Wike would not leave the PDP. “Wike will never leave the PDP. He has always said that PDP made him what he is.

He has always said he would remain there.”.