As PDP crisis lingers, Wike invites Buhari, opposition party leaders to commission projects

Governor Nyesom Wike of River State has continued to court leaders of the opposition even as leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party give the impression that their intra-party crisis involving the governor is being resolved.

Indications emerged on Monday that Governor Wike had invited President Muhammadu Buhari and a former APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomole, among others to inaugurate state completed projects slated for the week.

The inauguration has been scheduled as a week-long programme commencing today Monday, November 14, and expected to end on Friday, November 18, 2022.

Wike also invited prominent members of opposition political parties including the ruling APC and Labour Party (LP) to the programme, tagged, “Fourth Quarter 2022 Project Commissioning.”

Buhari is expected to commission the Nabo Graham Douglas Campus, Nigerian Law School, in Obio/Akpor on Friday.

Oshiomhole was invited to commission the Rumuepirikom Flyover in Obio-Akpor on Wednesday while LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi, will inaugurate the Nkpolu-Oroworokwo Flyover on Thursday in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

Wike also invited Emir of Kano, HRH Aminu Ado Bayero, for l the project commissioning. The monarch was invited to inaugurate the Dr Peter Odili Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Diagnostic and Treatment Centre in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers on Monday.

This is not the first time Wike will be inviting chieftains of the opposition party to commission projects in Rivers.

In August, Wike invited Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state to inaugurate the Orochiri-Worukwo (Waterline Junction) flyover in Port Harcourt.

Also, in October, Wike was invited by the Lagos State Government to a women’s conference, where he endorsed APC’s Sanwo-Olu for second term.

Wike’s action had riled PDP governorship candidate in Lagos, Olajide Adediran better known as Jandor.

The Rivers governor and four other PDP governors known as the G5 have demanded the resignation of Iyorchia Ayu, saying northerners should not be the PDP national chairman and presidential candidate.

But Ayu, a Benue indigene, has insisted that he would not step down until the end of his four-year tenure.

Wike and his allies have not been seen at the campaigns of the PDP’s presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku.