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A former Commissioner for Power and coordinator of the now-defunct Tinubu/Shettima Grassroot Independent Campaign Council in Rivers State, Augustine Wokocha, has dismissed claims that former governor Nyesom Wike worked for President Bola Tinubu in the run-up to the February 25 presidential election.

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Wokocha said Wike was welcomed to join the All Progressives Congress but that former Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, remained the leader of the party in the state.

Wike, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, and four of his colleague PDP governors, opposed the candidacy of their party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, insisting that the party’s national chairman at the time, Iyorchia Ayu should step aside, a call Ayu rejected.

Even though Wike did not openly campaign for Tinubu, who was then the presidential candidate of the APC, reports said he asked his supporters to work for the party.

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