Northern Group Justifies Wike’s Choice Of Wamakko For Project Commissioning

A Northern group known as Arewa Paradigm Shift, has explained why the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, ignored his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Tambuwal, to invite Tambuwal’s predecessor, Senator Aliyu Wamakko, to inaugurate a project in the state, last week.
The group’s Director of Mobilisation, Alhaji Adamu Musa-Illela, in a statement in Kaduna, last Saturday, explained that “Wike knows that Wamakko, being the ‘godfather’ of the North-West APC, is a more influential political figure in the North than the Sokoto State’s helmsman (Tambuwal).”
Wamakko, who is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), inaugurated the Ogbum-Nu-Abali-Eastern Bypass Road on the invitation of Wike.
The group noted that in a move that took pundits by surprise, Wike chose Wamakko, snubbing Tambuwal – who is a fellow party member and age-long associate prior to the PDP presidential primary.
“Governor Wike sent a formal letter of invitation to this godfather of Sokoto politics because the Rivers helmsman knows those that matter the most politically in the North, today. Wamakko is a tactician that helped Buhari win the North-West in 2015 and 2019”, the group said.
The statement also noted that Wike had also declared that his performance in office was a reflection of personal capacity and passion to deliver enduring development to Rivers State people rather than affiliation to the Peoples Democratic Party.
“To be politically relevant in the North-West today, political heavyweights like Wamakko are necessary alliance partners for victory”, the group declared.