The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has come under fire from the Edwin Woko-led section of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State for his recent comments regarding the APC’s goal of winning the 2027 governorship election in Rivers State.
Ganduje stated that seizing Rivers State’s Government House is a key objective for the APC in the next election cycle during the Saturday inauguration of the Tony Okocha-led APC state executive in Port Harcourt.
Edwin Woko responded angrily to Ganduje’s remarks, stating that there would be no vacancy in Rivers State in 2027.
He stated: “The good people of Rivers State would leave no stone unturned to ensure that Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s second term bid will be unhindered.”
Woko further reminded Ganduje: “The people of Rivers State had rejected APC and the people of the state will continue to reject APC and her unfriendly policies to the people.”
He asserted: “Governor Fubara will still contest the 2027 election on the platform of PDP despite all the challenges and disunity being inflicted on PDP by some political polyandrist that have infiltrated our great party PDP and which we are convinced that so soon thereafter all these APC polyandrous agents will become a thing of the past.”
Speaking to Ganduje and his counterpart from the APC Rivers, Woko said: “The rape of democracy that took place during the last gubernatorial election in Edo State cannot be replicated in Rivers State, because election must be done by voting and not by capturing or rob people of their hard-earned votes through the help of faceless security agents or any other form of manipulation Ganduje’s APC may apply.”
After the tenure of the state executives led by Aaron Chukwuemeka expired, Edwin Woko is said to have become the factional chairman of the PDP in Rivers State.
In a conversation with reporters, Woko asserted that on September 28, the state’s PDP principal members and stakeholders established an interim leadership structure under his direction.
Along with Erien Naikachep Maurice, Nelson Ndubuisi, and Nyebuchi Dike, Woko had also filed a case against Chukwuemeka, the PDP chairman in Rivers State, the state executives, the PDP national chairman, and other individuals.
According to Woko and others, the congress that resulted in Chukwuemeka and his executive committee in July 2024 was unlawful because it was carried out against an existing court injunction.
