Wike grants Atiku's campaigners conditional access to Rivers stadium for rally

• Published date: 20 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has given campaigners of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, only 48 hours to access the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium for their presidential campaign scheduled for February 11th.

The Governor insisted that the approval granted at no cost to Presidential Campaign Council would only give them access to the stadium two days to the event.

Wike spoke on Friday at the campaign inauguration of the Rivers State PDP Campaign Council in Oyigbo Local Government Area on Friday.

The Governor threaten to cancel the approval if the Director-General of the PCC in Rivers State, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, tried to take forceful possession of the stadium weeks to the event.

He said Sekibo had no right to want to take possession of the stadium one month before the date of the event.

Wike said: 'Let me also use this opportunity to warn Abiye Sekibo, we have made approval for your presidential candidate to use Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, February 11th, you have no right to begin to go to the stadium now.

'We cannot give you access to the stadium now. We can only give you access to the stadium two days to the occasion for you to prepare.

'Nobody gave you one month. So, if you dare it again, to go and force yourself into the stadium, I will cancel the approval with immediate effect. Dare it again, I will cancel it. Heaven will not fall. In fact, if heaven falls now, we will be happy that it was in our time heaven came down.'

The Governor wondered why Sekibo was acting against the...