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18/09/2026

# # Deepening Feud Between Wike and APC Governors Dominates 2027 Election Preparations
A public rift between Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike and the All Progressives Congress (APC) Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) has escalated dramatically in recent days, emerging as the ruling party's most serious internal fault line ahead of the 2027 general elections.

- Date: The latest exchanges and formal party statements were published Thursday, September 18, 2026, following an initial PGF closed-door rejection of Wike's political arrangements earlier this week.

- Core Dispute: The disagreement centers on Wike's "Rainbow Coalition," a cross-party structure he says exists only to mobilize support for President Bola Tinubu's re-election, but which APC governors argue will fragment party votes and undermine official APC candidates at the state and legislative level.

- Current Alignment: South-East APC leadership and a growing number of party chieftains have publicly backed the governors, while Wike retains support from some state-level PDP and APC actors in his home base of Rivers State.

📋 Latest Developments
The feud first blew open earlier this week when the PGF, chaired by Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma, passed a formal resolution prohibiting APC governors from endorsing any external political coalitions that could harm the party's electoral chances. Wike responded publicly by describing opposing APC governors as "politically lazy," accusing them of failing to deliver strong vote totals for Tinubu during the 2023 presidential election, and pointing to Imo State as an example where the president won minimal support despite APC winning Senate seats there.

In the most recent developments Thursday, the full South-East APC caucus released a joint statement condemning Wike's attacks on the governors as "most unfortunate, reprehensible and completely unacceptable," and affirming that the PGF's position is necessary to secure a comprehensive APC victory in 2027. The caucus specifically noted that the governors Wike has targeted have delivered visible development in their states and secured more than 25% of the 2023 presidential vote, adding that their records speak for themselves.

Independent APC chieftain and former House of Representatives Minority Leader Farouk Aliyu also slammed Wike on Thursday, saying the minister had already been adequately compensated for his 2023 campaign support and that the party would not tolerate continued name-calling of its governors. Aliyu added that Wike has no authority to dictate how the APC runs its election campaigns, and that it is unreasonable to expect the party to back coalitions where voters support Tinubu at the presidential level but cast ballots for other parties down the ticket.

💬 Key Positions From Both Sides
Wike has continued to defend the Rainbow Coalition, insisting the arrangement is 100% dedicated to Tinubu's re-election, and that he never promised to support APC candidates in state races — noting he remains a chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which will field its own candidates for governorship and legislative seats. He has also argued the governors are opposing the coalition out of fear they cannot win re-election on their own records.

The PGF and its supporters counter that the parallel coalition structure will create conflicting campaign machinery, confuse voters, and could ultimately hurt Tinubu's own re-election prospects if the rift continues to escalate. They add that Wike's coalition has already fielded candidates against official APC nominees in multiple states ahead of the 2027 polls.

🔍 Broader Context and Implications
Analysts and party insiders warn the feud is fundamentally a turf fight over control of the 2027 campaign machinery, candidate succession, and long-term political influence in APC-governed states, rather than a disagreement over election strategy alone. Denge Josef Onoh, former South-East spokesman to President Tinubu, noted Thursday that Wike has a well-documented history of tactical political disruption, and that the dispute will eventually require formal clarification from the Presidency over the relationship between official APC structures and independent groups mobilizing for Tinubu.

Political analysts have also cautioned that an escalation of the rift could have tangible electoral consequences, particularly given Wike's significant influence in Rivers State, which has the potential to deliver up to one million votes for the presidential candidate. The APC national leadership has not yet released a formal public position on the dispute, leaving party observers waiting to see if a mediated resolution can be reached before tensions further destabilize the ruling party's 2027 campaign preparations.

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18/09/2026

Regional disparities describe the persistent imbalances in economic, social, and living standard outcomes between different geographic areas within a single country, and they exist to varying degrees across nearly all nations worldwide. These gaps show up as measurable differences in income, productivity, wages, investment access, education, health, public service provision, and political representation, and can lead to entrenched inequality and alienation among residents of disadvantaged regions.

Core Observations on Current Trends
Across advanced economies, regional gaps generally narrowed from the early 1900s until roughly 1980, before beginning to widen steadily from the late 1980s onward. As of recent estimates, the 90th percentile richest region in advanced economies is on average 70% richer than the 10th percentile poorest region, and the rate at which poorer regions catch up to wealthier ones has slowed dramatically. The largest within-country regional gaps are found in the developing world, though disparities are also widening in high-income economies such as the U.S. and UK, driven by booming major cities and decline in former industrial areas.

🔍 Key Causes of Disparities
A mix of historical, geographic, policy, and structural factors drive these gaps:
- Initial natural endowments and historical economic conditions that leave some regions better positioned to adapt to changing industry needs
- Uneven policy favoritism that directs investment, industry support, and resources toward specific regions
- Globalization and technological change that concentrates high-wage, high-skill work in major urban hubs, while leaving former industrial regions with low-wage, low-skill employment opportunities
- Differences in regional economic structure: regions reliant on retail, hospitality, or manual sectors suffered far deeper setbacks during shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic, while regions with large public, finance, or utilities sectors were far more resilient
- Barriers to labor mobility including high housing costs and linked social benefit systems that prevent workers from moving to higher-opportunity regions

⚠️ Consequences
Widening regional disparities are strongly linked to falling social trust, rising populism, and reduced social cohesion, as well as broader efficiency losses for national economies from underutilized talent in lagging regions. Research also shows inequality has different effects depending on context: it can support faster capital accumulation and growth in less developed regions, while acting as a drag on human capital led growth in more developed areas.

💡 Policy and Mitigation Approaches
Countries have used a range of interventions to reduce gaps, from large-scale national programs like China's "Go West" policy that directs wealthier provinces to support poorer inland regions, to more modern localized regional development strategies focused on infrastructure investment, human capital development, and supporting entrepreneurship in lagging areas. The most effective policies aim to encourage high-wage job creation in disadvantaged regions, rather than only relying on population movement to already prosperous cities.
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