Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, in what appears to be a dig
at Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto, has criticised the latter over his
electoral value.
He spoke on Monday at a reception organised in his honour
following his outing at the just-concluded PDP presidential primary.
The Sokoto governor had, in his address at the convention on
Saturday, announced his withdrawal from contesting the presidency, and asked
his supporters to back former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.
Abubakar later won the primary with 371 votes, with Wike
coming second with 237 votes.
Iyorchia Ayu, PDP national chairman, had also praised the
Sokoto governor and described him as the “hero” of the convention.
Speaking on the happenings at the convention, Wike made a
veiled reference to Tambuwal’s slim margin of victory during the 2019 general
election.
The Sokoto governor had narrowly secured a second term in
office with a margin of 342 votes.
In his address on Monday, Wike said some persons in the
party had nothing much to offer in terms of votes.
“We have done our best and and the whole world has seen that
we have done our best. If I wanted to scuttle this convention, I would have
done that. And I told them,” he said.
“There are people you think are human beings but they are
not. As far as I am concerned, [there is] conspiracy. I have told everybody —
go and bring your own vote. Sokoto, Zamfara, Niger bring your votes. It’s not
about the north. We have come to the point of bring your votes, so that people
can win election.
“I’ve never seen how people can violate procedure. Somebody
I have spoken with and it is at that point he was speaking that he can say ‘I
am withdrawing’. He now turned it back. I just said ‘look, this our party must
not be destroyed.’
“I would have left
where I was sitting and said ‘no this convention cannot hold except you allow
me to talk’, and I would have flattened that who says he is a human being. When
you see a sitting governor who won election with 300 votes, which vote will he
give?
“So, it is God’s will. Whatever they are thinking may not be
what will happen.”
He, however, thanked his supporters for their efforts,
adding that his result at the primary showed that Rivers should not be
“underrated”.
“I just want to thank you for your support, commitment,
everything. You have shown the world that Rivers is one and our interest must
be protected all the time. They underrate us, but now, they will not underrate
us again. We have all it takes to do whatever we want to do,” he said.
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