'APC is prepared to receive Wike' - State Assembly tells Gov Fubara

Following speculations that the former Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike may have concluded arrangements to dump the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the State Assembly Forum (ASAF) of the APC has asked the Rivers State governor, Sim Fubara to allow him to go.

According to the Forum, Governor Fubara should allow Wike to decide on his next political adventure following and concentrate more on the administration of the oil-rich state.

In a statement on Tuesday, June 20, in Abuja by the director general of the APC State Assembly Forum (ASAF), Ambassador Fubara Dagogo, he said that the APC would be prepared to receive Wike into its fold and tap from his wealth of experience in politics and governance, Vanguard reported.

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and leader of the G-5 governors, Nyesom Wike, were both absent at the reconciliation meeting staged by a selected committee of the party's National Working Committee (NWC).

Similarly, the vice presidential candidate of the PDP, Ifeanyi Okowa was also absent from the reconciliation meeting on Tuesday, June 20, at the party's secretariat.

Speaking at the meeting, the National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature, revealed that the meeting was staged to ease calm and begin reconciliation talks between aggrieved members of the PDP in the aftermath of the 2023 general election.