Intense Lobbying For Rivers Speaker To Join Atiku Camp

There is a serious pressure on the Speaker of the Rivers state House of Assembly Ikuinyi –Owaji Ibani to join the political camp of former vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar following intense lobbying.

Towncrier.ng from check can report that the incumbent Speaker was a former pal of former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Prince Uche Secondus, until things fell Apart in a bid to the party presidential primaries.

Ikuyi is one of the longest serving lawmakers in the state and has been politically tied with incumbent governor Nyesom Wike even though we have gathered that Prince Secondus was instrumental to the emergence of the Speaker some years back.

Already, the political camps are fierce with divergent interest and pressure from home and across ahead of the 2023 election with political opponents jostling to outdo one another.