Rivers State Governor, Nyesom
Wike, has announced that members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the
state will collectively decide on who to support among the numerous
presidential aspirants for the 2019 elections.
Governor Wike gave this
indication ahead of the presidential primary of the PDP, while responding to
questions in an interview at the Government House in Port Harcourt.
The Governor said no single
individual would determine the direction of Rivers PDP delegates but leaders of
the party will meet at the state level and decide as a team on who to support.
Governor Wike denied assigning
campaign coordinator to any of the presidential aspirants from the north, who
he said had gone to other governors and have been given campaign coordinators.
He said several presidential
aspirants have been coming to visit him and to request he nominate a liaison in
support of their candidature, but he declined.
Wike mentioned former Vice
President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Alhaji Sule Lamido, Senator Ahmed Makarfi,
Senate President Bukola Saraki, Governor AminuTambuwal of Sokoto State, Malam
Ibrahim Shekarau and Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa among those who have visited him.
The Governor said nobody would
blindfold the people of Rivers State into supporting a presidential aspirant
with compromised credentials.
Governor Wike also alleged that
some of the PDP Presidential aspirants were being sponsored by the APC and the
Presidency, stressing that he cannot be misled.
He also claimed that the head of
one of the security agencies in the country had approached him to support one
of the presidential aspirants.
Wike also tipped himself to
remain in office after the 2019 elections, until 2023, when he said Rivers
people would collectively choose his successor.
He said: “At the end of the day,
the leadership of the party will meet at the state level and decide where we
are heading to. Then we will all be together. No one individual can do it
alone. So, Rivers state will move as a team, I will listen to the leadership of
the party, then we will move forward.
“Who are we going to support?
Where is the national survey? Who is more popular? This is how politics is
played. I challenge any of the presidential aspirants from the north who have
gone to other governors and they have given them campaign coordinators, I
challenge them to mention if I have given them one name.
“Can anybody say I have met him
one day to say support so, so, and so Presidential aspirant? People have been
coming here and I told them I will not, and I will never, nominate anybody to
be a liaison to any of the presidential aspirants. Not one person, I challenge
them.
“But one thing you must take home
is that I cannot be misled, I cannot be blindfolded; I know what’s going on. I
know what the presidency and the APC are doing to plant a presidential aspirant
in the PDP.
“I have not even mentioned how a
very senior official of a security agency in the country told me which of the
candidates to support! You can imagine me as a governor and the head of a
security agency would tell me to support one or two persons. Head of security
agency who is in a government controlled by the APC! Come on, you direct me on
who to support for president?
“It won’t happen in my state, but
I know they will kill a lot of persons. I can tell you they will kill a lot of
us. No problem, this is the sacrifice we have to make for democracy to thrive.
“I’m on record and my friends, my
colleagues, they know me and I have told them. I am a student of history,
mention who has survived it. That you put your life, you put your blood to bring
somebody. So as a student of History, I know it does not work that way.
“I will do what I have come to
do, to serve my people and when my time has come to an end, those who want to
run, let them run. Let the people of Rivers State decide, it is you, it is him.
.And that is the problem we are having, people want to continue to be
Godfathers, how and that is the problem we are having without development.
“When I hear some people make
comments, with all due respect, I don’t want to talk about persons, when I hear
about one, they call him Tonye Princewill and I laugh. The young man forgot the
interview He granted the Premium Times, He forgot the interview, and people
forget history. That these things are documented, so I now hear what he’s
saying, I say oh my God.
“How much Rivers State assets
were sold by the previous Government to his friend and how it was used to fund
election of Buhari and the rest. He forgot easily, today He’s saying a
different thing and I say what kind of characters do we have?
Details of Governor Wike’s
comments were contained in a statement released by his Special Assistant on
Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu.
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