Politics

Wike, Makinde visit Tinubu, urge Nigerians to support President-elect

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde, have urged Nigerians to rally round the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, saying the time for politics is now over.

Wike and Makinde gave the admonition while speaking to journalists after meeting with Tinubu at the Defence House in Abuja on Friday, April 28.

“Elections have come and gone. The winner has emerged and therefore it is necessary for all Nigerians to give him the necessary support for the interest of Nigeria.

“I am confident that he has what it takes to turn Nigeria around,” Wike said.

Also speaking, Makinde enjoined Nigerians to support Tinubu for Nigeria’s progress.

“I came here to basically pay homage to the President-elect and to let him know that elections are over and this is time for governance and we would do our best to give him support for the good governance of Nigeria,” the governor stated.

Both Wike and Makinde were elected on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The governors alongside three others, Governors Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), known as G5, failed to campaign for the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over his alleged refusal to prevail on the party’s former National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, to resign after the former Vice President, a northerner, clinched the presidential ticket of the party.

The aggrieved governors insisted that it was unfair for the main opposition party to have the national chairman and presidential candidate from the northern region of the country in the build-up to the 2023 general election, saying Ayu should resign his position for justice, equity, and fairness in the PDP.

Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), however, defeated Atiku and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) to emerge the winner of the February 25 presidential election.

The Star