Nigeria, Sept. 10 -- Tonye Cole, a former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Nigeria's South-south, says he will contest in the 2027 governorship election in the state.

He disclosed this on Tuesday when he appeared as a guest on the Arise Television programme, Prime Time.

Mr Cole, who contested and lost the 2023 Rivers governorship election, said he has a goal to become the governor of the oil-rich state.

Before the 2023 election, Mr Cole's ambition to become Rivers governor was frustrated by a protracted factional fight in the Rivers APC; he "won" the APC primary organised by a faction led by Rotimi Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers, while a different primary organised by another faction ...