2015: Rivers APC Picks Peterside As Consensus Candidate For Governorship

All Progressive congress, APC, in Rivers State yesterday, chose the member representing Andoni Nkoro federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr Dakuku Peterside as it’s consensus guber candidate.

Nkoro emerged at the end of a marathon meeting of party’s stakeholders in Government House, Port Harcourt.

Dakuku was a former Commissioner of Works during the first tenure of Governor Rotimi Amaechi.

Peterside is the Chairman House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream).

Governor Amaechi at the end of a close door caucus meeting of the party in Government House, Port Harcourt, lifted the hand of Dakuku as the candidate of the party.

A source who broke the news to media men in Port Harcourt, said it was a close door caucus meeting, adding that no media man was allowed into the meeting.

Meanwhile, the state Chairman of the party, Mr Davis Ikanya, who fielded questions from newsmen later on the outcome of the meeting, merely parried questions, saying that the party will conduct primaries for all the various offices.

The meeting was held after stakeholders in the party re­ceived former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) at the Government House in Port Harcourt.

One of the stakeholders de­scribed Peterside as a team player, expressing optimism that he would beat anybody that emerged as the governor­ship candidate of the PDP in the state.