Why I didn’t welcome Tinubu to Rivers – APC gov candidate

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tonye Cole, has explained that he didn’t come out to welcome the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the state, because he was not informed or invited.

Tinubu had on Wednesday arrived in Rivers State on the invitation of Governor Wike to inaugurate the Rumuokwuta/Rumuola Flyover in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

Speaking on Arise Television yesterday, Cole said Wike should have informed the state chapter of the APC if he really wanted them to be part of the programme.

He said, “I will describe the visit from two sides. The first side of it is the president-elect. As the president-elect of Nigeria, he has the right to go anywhere.

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“The issue is that the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, ought also to be the governor of all Rivers people. And one of the things that he should have done if he is inviting the president-elect, who is the president-elect of all Nigerians, would have been to call us as APC in Rivers State to inform us that he was inviting the president-elect and would want us to be part of that programme.

”We never got any invitation, I was never invited personally, I was not invited in my private capacity as a candidate of the party, neither was our party, APC in the state, invited to any of those things.”