Tag: Governor of Rivers State

Fresh facts have emerged on why the outgoing Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, recently demolished two buildings belonging to neighbouring Bayelsa State in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital. The real reason for Wike’s anger, according to reliable sources, was not because Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State failed to renovate the buildings on 5 and 9 Akassa Street in the old GRA in Port Harcourt having been notified in 2021 by the Rivers State Ministry of Lands. The action of Wike is said to be an afterthought when his earlier plot failed. He was said to have approached Governor Diri sometime in 2021 seeking to acquire the buildings from the Bayelsa government. During his second term, the garrulous Rivers governor, who leaves office on May 29, had embarked on acquisiti...