Governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party in last year’s election in Rivers State, Sen. Magnus Abe has denied claims that the FCT minister, Nyesom Wike came and pushed him aside in the Tinubu campaign organization.
Speaking, during a stakeholders meeting in Port Harcourt, Abe described the claims as false.
He said, “I have my reasons. Number one is that everybody knew that from the beginning we tied ourselves to Asiwaju, Ahmed Bola Tinubu. The first billboard in support of Tinubu in the south south was put up here.
“I was patron to every pro-Tinubu organisation in the South -South. Yes the FCT Minister is my friend. I did everything to facilitate him becoming part of the Tinubu campaign because I knew that his presence will make substantial difference that will help us to win.
“It’s not true that Wike came and pushed me aside, no. We had a disagreement but I will not give the details of the disagreement. Wike did not steal anything from us, he did not deceive us to take anything from us. That was not how it happened, but something happened”.
“So I want to use this opportunity to appeal to all of you who have any misgivings about what is happening in the party to let it go. I’m making that appeal because I know what happened. Wike is my friend and if you know the politics of Rivers State, you will know that there is nobody that have not been offended. So there’s nobody that you want to work with now that you are not going to reconcile with.
“Anybody you say you are going to work with, you must reconcile with the person because I have fought with people, I have fought against them, I have fought by them I have fought for them. We are politicians here, we know what has happened in the state over the past how many years.
“So we cannot be in politics alone, we must do it with people and you cannot go and do it with a child that was born this morning. Because those are the only ones we have not offended or who have not offended us. Anybody who is up to 18 years old of age, you have offended the person and the person must have offended you. So if you now want to go and do politics with anyone of them you must reconcile.
