Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike approved the Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Elekahia, Port Harcourt, for the campaign of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, on February 15, 2023.
Tony Okocha, Rivers State Coordinator of the Bola Tinubu Campaign Organization, said this at a news conference in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
Okocha stated that all preparations had been made to guarantee that the APC presidential standard bearer’s rally went off without a hitch.
Okocha said that Wike permitted the stadium’s usage out of kindness, without collecting the N5m money mandated by Executive Order 21 from the campaign council.
He stated, “Wike in his usual magnanimity has granted the approval of an alternate venue, the Yakubu Gowon Stadium, Elekahia, Port Harcourt, for the presidential campaign rally scheduled to hold on February 15, 2023 absolutely free of charge.
“But subject to the issuance of a written guarantee of the safety and security of the facilities at the venue due to the violence recorded in recent rallies by the governorship standard bearer of the party in the state.”
An 11-person committee has been established to plan and guarantee the effective hosting of the rally in the state, according to Okocha, who is also the Coordinator and Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT-Vangiard in the South-South).
He emphasized that the state’s campaign committee had done its due diligence to guarantee Tinubu’s victory.
