Port Harcourt, Rivers state – Edison Ehie, a former factional speaker of the Rivers house of assembly, has said the administration of Governor Sim Fubara will not support any indigene of the state to contest for president in 2027.
TimesNow.com.ng reports that Bola Tinubu, an influential politician, is Nigeriaâs current president. While his first term tenure expires in 2027, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain is expected to contest for relection.
Ehie, the current chief of staff (CoS) to the Rivers state government, spoke on Saturday, July 27, at an empowement programme in Port Harcourt city local government area (LGA).
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TimesNow.com.ng reports that Ehieâs boss, Governor Fubara, is currently locked in a political feud with Nyesom Wike, his successor and current minister of the federal capital territory (FCT).
The political crisis has polarised the Rivers house of assembly.
Earlier, TimesNow.com.ng reported that a political analyst, Segun Akinleye, explained “the chains of illegality sweeping over Rivers state”.
Akinleye asserted that the present political crisis in the prominent south-south state is “a result of 2023 where Wike showed that ‘anything goes'”.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
