Rivers State: No vacancy in 2027 – PDP replies Ganduje

By Folarunso Alagbede

The Edwin Woko-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), in Rivers State has criticised the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, over his recent remarks concerning APC’s ambition to win the Rivers State governorship election in 2027.
During the inauguration of the Tony Okocha-led APC state executive in Port Harcourt on Saturday, Ganduje declared that capturing Rivers State’s Government House is a top priority for APC in the upcoming election cycle.
In response, Edwin Woko firmly rejected Ganduje’s comments, emphasising that there is 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.”
Addressing Ganduje and his APC Rivers counterpart, Woko stated: “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.”
Edwin Woko supposedly emerged the factional chairman of the PDP in Rivers State following the tenure expiration of the Aaron Chukwuemeka-led state executives.
Woko that PDP stakeholders and principal members in the state had, on September 28, inaugurated an interim leadership structure with him at the helm of affairs.
Woko and the trio of Erien Naikachep Maurice, Nelson Ndubuisi, and Nyebuchi Dike, had also instituted a case against the chairman of the PDP in Rivers State, Chukwuemeka, the state executives, the national chairman of PDP, and others.
Woko and others claim that the congress that produced Chukwuemeka and his executive committee in July 2024 was conducted in violation of an existing court order, and therefore, illegal.