RIVERS state governor Nyesom Wike has urged Nigerians to support the administration of Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Wike made the appeal in Abuja while speaking with journalists after a meeting with Tinubu on Friday, April 28. The governor attended the meeting with his Oyo state counterpart, Seyi Makinde.
“Elections have come and gone. The winner has emerged and, therefore, it is necessary for all Nigerians to give him the necessary support for the interest of Nigeria.
“I am confident that he has what it takes to turn Nigeria around,” Wike said.
Makinde also urged Nigerians to back the incoming president and his government.
“I came here to basically pay homage to the President-elect and to let him know that elections are over and this is time for governance and we would do our best to give him support for the good governance of Nigeria,” he said.
Both governors, although members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), had supported Tinubu in the fiercely contested 2023 presidential elections.
Tinubu defeated the PDP candidate Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the Labour party to emerge winner of the election.
Wike said he, along with some other PDP governors, supported Tinubu so that power would shift from the North back to the South.
“Why we supported Asiwaju is so that power should return to the South. Whether Asiwaju or Peter Obi, for us the next president must be a Southerner in the spirit of equity,” Wike had explained.
Ijeoma Opara is a journalist with The ICIR. Reach her via vopara@icirnigeria.org or @ije_le on Twitter.