{"id":234156,"date":"2025-08-11T07:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/apc-or-pdp-we-dont-know-where-he-belongs-tonye-cole-tackles-wike\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:01:40","slug":"apc-or-pdp-we-dont-know-where-he-belongs-tonye-cole-tackles-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/apc-or-pdp-we-dont-know-where-he-belongs-tonye-cole-tackles-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Or PDP? We Don\u2019t Know Where He Belongs \u2013 Tonye Cole Tackles Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APC Or PDP? We Don\u2019t Know Where He Belongs \u2013 Tonye Cole Tackles Wike<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<h2>Former gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tonye Cole, has lamented that the state has consistently been in the news for the wrong reasons.<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Sunday night, Cole, who expressed concern over what he described as persistent political confusion in the state, decried what he called the \u201cchaotic\u201d state of politics in Rivers.<\/p>\n<p>The former gubernatorial candidate described it as a muddle of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and APC.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3 ai-track\" data-ai=\"WzMsMCwiSXNhYWMiLCIiLDRd\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd3GiRw0g6bOS3kAtHb1Yhc5Jic6iTkM9pA5DhIB13uZgDpGQ\/viewform?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=102633326415294296882\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1026109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naijanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-09-at-16.23.48.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"560\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<p>According to him, no one knows whether the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, belongs to the PDP or APC, fueling more political confusion in the South-south state.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201c<em>Rivers State always seems to be in the headlines for the wrong reasons. I\u2019ve said this over and over again, and one of the things that concern me most is that we continue to use Rivers State as an experiment of any type of politics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe don\u2019t know which party is in existence in Rivers State. Is it the PDP or the APC? Or is it a mixture of both. You know, everything just seems wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd so one of the things that we are very concerned about is that we must establish good governance and the rule of law in Rivers State for anything to begin to work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs a gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State, I remain the leader of APC in Rivers State. Now that depends on what the President says, because we don\u2019t know where Wike is.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI have no idea whether it\u2019s in PDP, whether it\u2019s in APC, or whether it\u2019s a mixture of both.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere\u2019s that faction of it, but then there is an APC in Rivers State that continues to be legitimate, of which I lead. And I continue to lead that APC faction in Rivers State, and we\u2019ll continue doing that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 4 --><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span class=\"copyright\"><strong>\u00a9 2025 Naija News, a division of Polance Media Inc. Contact us via [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>APC, Nyesom Wike, PDP, Rivers State, Tonye Cole,<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naijanews.com\/2025\/08\/11\/apc-or-pdp-we-dont-know-where-he-belongs-tonye-cole-tackles-wike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APC Or PDP? We Don\u2019t Know Where He Belongs \u2013 Tonye Cole Tackles Wike Former gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tonye Cole, has lamented that the state has consistently been in the news for the wrong reasons. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Sunday night, Cole, who expressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[287,220,251,606,1444],"class_list":["post-234156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-nyesom-wike","tag-pdp","tag-rivers-state","tag-tonye-cole"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}