Don’t celebrate yet, we are yet to pick governorship candidate under rainbow coalition – Wike

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has dismissed reports suggesting that the “Rainbow Coalition” successful Rivers State has already endorsed a campaigner for the 2027 governorship election.

Speaking connected Saturday astatine a luncheon for candidates of the conjugation successful Port Harcourt, Wike said the governmental confederation had lone reached a statement connected supporting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, stressing that nary determination has been made regarding the state’s adjacent governor.

“The Rainbow Coalition, we person not chosen who volition beryllium the politician of Rivers State. But we person enactment candidates who person emerged nether the Rainbow Coalition,” Wike said.

“The lone determination we person taken is that we are going to enactment President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”

The FCT Minister cautioned aspirants and their supporters against celebrating prematurely, saying specified claims could make a misleading content astir the coalition’s presumption and his relation arsenic a subordinate of the People’s Democratic Party.

According to him, the conjugation remains a broad-based governmental level comprising members of the All Progressives Congress, People’s Democratic Party, Labour Party and Action Alliance.

Wike noted that each candidates who person emerged from the participating parties stay eligible for consideration, adding that the coalition’s enactment would collectively find its eventual ...