*Taunts minister’s civic reception
By Daniel Abia, P/Harcourt
The Rivers State chapter of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has declared that no politician in the state can win the forthcoming 2027 elections by boosting and sugar-coating the masses with lies and vain promises.
Reacting to a statement credited to the minister of the federal capital territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, during a civic reception organised in his honour by the City Boy Movement at Omagwa on Saturday that Rotimi Amaechi, the vice presidential candidate of ADC, would be defeated by 12 noon on election day, the party said the boast does not win election.
In a statement he released on Monday in Port Harcourt, the state chairman of the ADC, Dr Chukwudi Dimkpa, said Wike’s boast that he would defeat Amaechi by 12 noon on election day is even revealing. “Elections are not won by boasts, intimidation or political strongmen announcing results in advance. Rivers people will vote, the votes will be counted, and INEC, not Wike, will declare the winner,” he said.
