The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has thanked Tinubu for nominating the former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, as a minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state Publicity Secretary, Sydney Gbara, said \u201cThe nomination of former Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike by President Bola Tinubu is a welcome development to the party, though not a surprise to us because His Excellency has distinguished himself as a leader.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Mr Darlington Nwauju, asserted that the party would come up with an official reaction at the appropriate time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A former presidential aspirant of the APC, Dr Felix Nicolas, decried the absence of young persons on the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said, \u201cYou know I have always been an advocate for youths. From what we have seen so far, the youth are missing from the first batch. They are just not there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut for the women, I have been very impressed. I practically know every woman on that list. They are capable and worked hard. I am talking about the likes of Dr Betta, Uju and others. At least, we have six women so far. But the same can, however, not be said of the youth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has thanked Tinubu for nominating the former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, as a minister. The state Publicity Secretary, Sydney Gbara, said \u201cThe nomination of former Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike by President Bola Tinubu is a welcome development to the party, though not a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,44],"tags":[2500,4209],"class_list":["post-81032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-default","category-news","category-politics","tag-tinubu","tag-wike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81038,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81032\/revisions\/81038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}