Former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday, paid a solidarity visit to the new National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, at his private residence in Abuja.
Viral photographs showed Wike, who is one of the 45 ministers-designate of President Bola Tinubu, posing with Ganduje.
In the photos were also some of Wike’s loyalists and chieftains of the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, fuelling rumour of a possible defection to the ruling APC.
Hours after hosting the minister-designate and his delegation, Ganduje was spotted coming into the party secretariat at about 2.35 pm.
In recent times, futile attempts have also been made by top chieftains of the PDP to have Wike expelled from the party over his alleged anti-party activities.
As of the time of filing this report, there were no official details of their closed-door meeting.
Efforts made to get the reaction of the National Publicity Secretary of the ruling party were unsuccessful.
The Director of Publicity of the APC, Bala Ibrahim, however, didn’t see anything wrong with the visit.
“You can see from what the national chairman said yesterday (at the meeting of former deputy governors) that he wants to improve on the fortune of the party, which is an indirect way of saying he is not ruling any option out.
“He wants to see to it that the party grows from strength to strength. He has come to improve the gains of the party, especially now that we have some isolated (off-season) gubernatorial elections in some states.”
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