”Presidency, APC Sponsoring One Of The PDP Presidential Aspirant” – Nyesom Wike Says

Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, has alleged that the presidency and the ruling party APC, is sponsoring some of the PDP presidential aspirants. In an interview with newsmen in the state house in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital recently, Governor Wike said the head of a security agency in the Buhari-led government, had approached him to support a particular PDP presidential candidates during the primaries.

”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?”

Governor Wike reiterated that the alleged plot by the APC Federal Government to use the security agencies to rig elections in Rivers State in 2019 will fail.

“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.”

Governor Wike stated that he will have nothing to do with godfather politics, pointing out that when he leaves in 2023, the people of Rivers State will collectively choose his successor.

“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.” he said