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THE All Progressives Congress in Rivers State and the Grassroots Development Initiative have disagreed on Wednesdays resignation of the Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, and his move to contest the 2015 governorship election.

While the state APC saw Wikes resignation and governorship ambition as a political suicide, the GDI maintained that his resignation was an answer to calls that he (Wike) should quit the Federal Executive Council and contest the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.

The State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Chris Fynebone, said in an interview with our correspondent that Wike would suffer the worst defeat in the hand of any governorship candidate should he (Wike) contest the 2015 election.

Fynebone cautioned that the political calculation in the state did not support anybody from Ikwerre to succeed the current governor of the state, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who hails from the same area as Wike.

I am speaking as an Ijaw person now. We learnt that Wike has resigned to contest the 2015 governorship election. It is a political suicide because he will suffer the biggest defeat any governorship candidate has ever suffered.

His ambition will estrange the Ijaw people from the Ikwerre people and this means he (Wike) will get less than five per cent of the votes from the Ijaw people.

The very moment he (Wike) picks the ticket to contest the governorship election, voting based on party lines or affiliation will melt away, the state APC publicity secretary added.

But the Secretary-General of GDI, Mr. Samuel Nwanosike, described Wikes resignation and governorship ambition as a welcome development, adding that the former minister has what it takes to win the forthcoming poll.

Nwanosike, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, explained that the former minister would leave no stone unturned to clinch the sole ticket of the PDP.

He boasted that the grand patron of GDI would not only win the PDP primary election, Wike would also win the general election.

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Rivers APC, group clash over Wikes resignation