2027: Wike declares APC’s Kingsley Chinda next governor of Rivers State

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has declared that the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship campaigner successful Rivers State, Honourable Kingsley Chinda, volition look arsenic the adjacent politician of the authorities successful 2027.

The erstwhile politician of Rivers State made the remark connected Tuesday during a lukewarm reception organised successful his honour by Ogbakor Ikwerre, the socio-cultural organisation of the Ikwerre taste nationality, astatine Obiri-Ehie.

Acknowledging the beingness of dignitaries astatine the event, Wike introduced Chinda arsenic the “former Minority Leader successful the House of Representatives and, by the grace of God, the adjacent politician of Rivers State.”

If elected, Chinda, a subordinate of the House of Representatives, volition instrumentality implicit from Governor Siminalayi Fubara, who declined to tally for a 2nd term.

Chinda, a long-time governmental state of Wike, has been wide regarded arsenic the erstwhile governor’s preferred successor pursuing the governmental realignments successful the state.

2027: Wike declares APC’s Kingsley Chinda adjacent politician of Rivers State