The Rivers State Government has re-issued approval for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to use the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in the state to host its presidential campaign rally.
Governor Nyesom Wike disclosed this while speaking at the PDP campaign rally in Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area of the state.
Wike said the approval has been re-issued to the National Working Committee of the PDP after pleas from many persons.
“This morning after appeal from people who talked to me, I gave them back Adokiye Amiesimaka. Go and campaign. Let it not be that because they didn’t campaign that is why they didn’t win in Rivers State,” he said.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that the Rivers State Government withdrew the initial approval on the grounds that credible intelligence and recent development proved that the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation was working in collaboration with the All Progressives Congress in the state.
The state government said the PDP campaign was intending to share the approved facility with the APC, whose activities, they claimed are characterised by violence