Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Iheanyi Dike says it is a welcome development if the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike decides to join the party.
Dike, in a chat with the Punch Today, said Wike should join the party if he wants, instead of hobnobbing with Presidential candidate of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
According to him, he is just one man and will not add value more than a single person.
He described Wike’s meeting with Tinubu as an affront to the party in the state and that members of the party are not happy with the latter.
He urged Tinubu to apologize to Rivers APC members adding that his action amounts to anti-party activity.
Part of his statement reads,
If he wants to join the APC, it is a welcome development. Let him come, we will welcome him, but not to be hobnobbing with our presidential candidate. This calls for concern. If he decides to join the APC, it is a welcome development; he is just one man, and perhaps he will not add value more than a single person can; so we won’t chase him away.
I was present at the stakeholders’ meeting; I have said it and I will continue to say that we, the people of Rivers State in the APC, demand an apology from Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu. For him (Tinubu) to come to Rivers State through his handlers and the South-West governors to engage Governor Wike in a meeting is an affront. It is an affront to Rivers people, and Rivers APC members are not happy.
This amounts to anti-party activity if no one will caution him; I will say that we are demanding an apology from Ahmed Tinubu, our candidate, and his cohorts to Rivers APC. This is because we have the capacity to win here and we have the capacity to defeat the PDP. So why hobnob with Wike? Rivers People have rejected Wike and that is the truth.
