Nigeria’s president courts key state in oil-rich south

PORT HARCOURT: Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has taken his campaign for reelection to the city of Port Harcourt, seeking to secure another victory in the key state of Rivers in the oil-rich Niger Delta

Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress, won Rivers at the last vote in 2023, but opposition candidate Peter Obi — then of the Labour Party and now a candidate for the Nigeria Democratic Congress — polled strongly.

A slew of defections to the All Progressives Congress in the six states that make up the south-south geopolitical zone since then has put the president in a strong position.