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• Inaugurates campaign council in Rivers, directs members to win five voters daily
From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC)/Rainbow Coalition Presidential Campaign Council would abandon the conventional rally-style campaigns in favour of aggressive grassroots mobilisation to secure three million votes for President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general election.
Wike, who is the Coordinator of the Tinubu Campaign Council and leader of the Rainbow Coalition, said the campaign would move away from the practice of gathering supporters at designated venues for rallies to engage voters directly in their communities, homes, markets and social groups.
He spoke in Port Harcourt during the inauguration of the Rivers State chapter of the over 700-member campaign council.
“We are going to depart from that ceremonial campaign style of converging in one place and saying we are holding a rally.
“Rather, we are going to go out to communities, to family meetings, to age-grade meetings and to the markets to talk to them vigorously. Tell them why Tinubu should be re-elected,” he said.
To translate the three-million-vote target into measurable action, he directed every member of the campaign council to identify and persuade at least five voters daily to support Tinubu and APC candidates for the National Assembly.
“You must be found working. Take it as a point of duty: every day, I will get at least five voters that will vote for Tinubu and members of the National Assembly.
“If you multiply the number of people you win daily by the members of this council and the subcommittees, that is how we will hit the target,” he said.
The former Rivers State governor also announced plans to inaugurate local government campaign councils across the state within one week, adding that the lists of subcommittee chairmen and members would be finalised by Monday.
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Addressing concerns over the exclusion of some party faithful from the central campaign council, he said more supporters would be accommodated through the subcommittees, which he described as the operational engine of the campaign.
He defended the Rainbow Coalition’s inclusion of politicians from the APC, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP), describing the alliance as a strategic arrangement capable of pooling votes across political divides to secure victory for Tinubu.
He urged members to focus on communicating the achievements of the Tinubu administration in Rivers State rather than allowing themselves to be distracted by opposition provocations.
In his remarks, Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, pledged his commitment to the coalition, describing the newly inaugurated campaign council as bigger, broader and better coordinated than the structure that secured victory for Tinubu in 2023.
He said former political adversaries had now put their differences aside to work together towards the President’s re-election.
“Nothing is impossible. The only thing that is not possible is to revive the dead. If we take this as a serious task that must be achieved, we will come out decisively with a stronger vote than what we did in 2023,” Fubara said.
The governor, however, cautioned members against double-dealing, urging them to demonstrate genuine commitment to the campaign rather than professing loyalty publicly while working against the coalition privately.
“I am here and I say it boldly anywhere, any day, in private and in secret that I have taken this position,” he said.
Earlier, the Director of Administration of the campaign council, Desmond Akawor, said the campaign’s foot soldiers were prepared to cover all 6,866 polling units across Rivers State.
He said the state’s political leaders had already committed to delivering three million votes for Tinubu, adding that the campaign machinery was ready to reach voters in every part of the state.
