Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike says he has commenced full blown politicking ahead of the 2023 general elections, and that those who want to undermine him and his allies will be doing so at their own peril.
Wike’s media aide, Kelvin Ebiri in a statement said the governor disclosed this when he hosted PDP candidates for next year’s elections in Cross River state in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
The governor stated that his effort for amicable resolution of the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been frustrated by rent seekers in the party.
According to him, nobody can convince him to change his stance that the PDP should yield its national chairman position to Southern Nigeria.
He also explained that the seeming intractable crisis in the party had lingered because some vested interests, whom he described as “hyenas and rent seekers,” have remained obstinate and averse to justice, fairness and equity in the party.
part of his statement reads,
“We have finished presidential primaries, we have a presidential candidate. Is Wike saying remove presidential candidate? Is Wike saying remove vice presidential candidate? So, what are you begging me for? All I am saying, and I will continue to say is that you have taken president, give us (national) chairman.
“Nobody wants to speak the truth. If I am saying remove the presidential candidate, if I am saying remove the vice presidential candidate, then you will say why is he doing this.”
“He (national chairman) said, if the presidential candidate comes from the north, he will resign , which means he has had this in mind. Now, the thing has come to reality, now resign, no. And people are saying go and talk to Wike.
“I’ve accepted the presidential candidate, I have accepted the vice presidential candidate, what’s the problem again. You, fulfil your part. Let the South have something, that is all I’m preaching. You cannot have presidential candidate, national chairman, director general of the campaign.”
