Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike yesterday slammed some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirants for alleged opposition to Port Harcourt as venue for the party’s National Convention October 5 and 6.

He said such aspirants, by their action, showed “they are against the economic interest of the state and Niger Delta.”

Besides, he said such aspirants have failed to live up to their campaign for the restructuring of the country.

PDP is billed to hold a convention to elect its presidential candidate on October 5 and 6 in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Thirteen aspirants are jostling for the ticket.

The Port Harcourt venue, endorsed by some aspirants, has not gone down well with other aspirants.

Describing the opposition to Port Harcourt as strange, Wike said there was no other way to explain such cold feeling towards holding the convention in Port Harcourt apart from the fact that the aspirants involved had no economic interest of Rivers and Niger Delta at heart.

He said: “Those who are against the PDP convention holding in Port Harcourt don’t have the the economic interest of Rivers and Niger Delta at heart.

“If you are telling the people of the state and by extension Niger Delta that you don’t want such event to hold in their domain as an aspirant, how will you act when you become a president? How do you expect the people you are telling that you don’t like their state to vote for you during the election?”

The governor described as worrisome that the same people who have been traversing the length and breadth of the country calling for the restructuring of Nigeria were kicking against the choice of Port Harcourt as venue for the convention.

He asked: “Why are they not acting in tandem with their campaign for the restructuring of Nigeria? From their opposition to Port Harcourt, it means the restructuring campaign is a mere lip service”.

All the aspirants, he said, will enjoy a level playing field, insisting that the choice of Port Harcourt is not meant to give any aspirant an edge over others.

The governor said: “Every aspirant will be given a level playing field.

Holding the convention in Port Harcourt does not mean anybody will have undue advantage. What it will do for the state is that it will boost its local economy because groundnut, sellers of water in satchets and food vendors will have more sales. Hoteliers will also record increased business.

“That is the only thing Rivers State stands to gain from holding the convention in Port Harcourt. And anybody who is against Port Harcourt hosting the event does not like the state. He is against the economic interest of the state”.

According to Wike, the person who will emerge the candidate of the party will emerge on the basis of his political clout and not on any other consideration.

He said that what PDP members need at the moment “is not to bicker over the choice of convention venue but to work in unity to achieve the goal of the party which he said is to wrest power from the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).

“We need to work together, we don’t need any division at this moment. Our goal must be to win in 2019.”


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He definitely is talking to Atiku

These primaries go sweet die

Can't wait

Na wah oh... .Wike Easy Oooo

Gbam! Wike has spoken. The most important thing is to get a credible candidate who would send buhari back to his village come 2019.

Wike the wicked is busy hijacking party leadership

This is so true... I have always like wike courage and out spookiness'

Whether you're making sense or not carry go, .

Wike, the wicked, slayer of APC

The giver of sense to those without sense

We're solidly behind you

Wike know wht he is abt to do.. The presidential ticket is for saraki

Kwankwaso spoke about the reason why most of them will prefer the abuja to ph. But let's not forget that this evil govt will want to make sure the primary is disrupted. Just like the way they refuse kwankwaso using eagle square at the last minute citing one unless security concerns.

Ph will be better as they have PDP govt that will cater for them all.

, they're just against picking an anointed candidate like you did for Secondus.

Una no dey sleep!?

This one he didn't blame APC on the position being taken by those aspirants who disagreed, I hope it's wike that actually spoke.

The last harmattan of alusine durbar.

What

I think that Wike got meaning in what he was saying. I don't see any reason why Port Harcourt as a capital, will affect the outcome of primary election. No matter anyplace it will hold, the person that plays his game best will still emerge. Wike concern is just to burst the economy of the state.

I think this convention might be the beginning of the end of PDP.


I pray they will have a consensus candidate and give PMB a run for his money.

An aspirant with the needed clout should be confident that he will win irrespective of location of the primary.

The people in PDP and APC are the same non progressive, non performing group of people that have ruled us for half a century.

Youths!!! YOUTHS!!!! YOUTHS!!!
How many times did I call you!

When wike was busy building the part were was atiku and kwankwaso, if i ve my way i we gv the ticket to either lamido and dankwabo

Hector09:
When wike was busy building the part were was atiku and kwankwaso, if i ve my way i we gv the ticket to either lamido and dankwabo

Those guys were enemies within, PDP didn’t win their states in last presidential election.

Ayoswit:
Gbam! Wike has spoken. The most important thing is to get a credible candidate who would send buhari back to his village come 2019.

And who is credible person the party will present out of all those contesting?

ATIKULATE kindly support SENATOR KWANKWASO. Politics is local, the latter has a lot of grassroots who follow his idealogy in the entire North while Atikulate has supporters in the South East , Southwest na 50/50.
PMB must be kicked out by fire by force.


#BACKTODAURA

brixton:


Those guys were enemies within, PDP didn’t win their states in last presidential election.

it was not their fault PDP didn't win. Did PDP win saraki,atiku and kwankwaso state?

Wike should not be talking like this Abeg.

His words exudes arrogance and that's not what PDP wants right now

What sort of useless blackmail is this ?

Wike is acting and sounding so desperate to impose a candidate

BabaOwen:
it was not their fault PDP didn't win. Did PDP win saraki,atiku and kwankwaso state?

Atiku, Saraki and Kwankwaso decamped to APC, they did not stay back to deceive PDP and you don’t expect PDP to have smooth ride in such situations.

Ds wike is a clown.....


Threathning and abusing presidential aspirants bcs dey differ in venue choice

Is PH d pdp headquarter?

So despirate to impose tambuwal?

Ds is a whole party not rivers governance man

Wike needs to

BabaOwen:
it was not their fault PDP didn't win. Did PDP win saraki,atiku and kwankwaso state?

But those that you mentioned their names were not in PDP that time... PMB has been winning in Dakwambo’s state since 2011... And there was a video that went Viral where he was telling people who to vote for in 2015

Awol1:
Wike should not be talking like this Abeg.

His words exudes arrogance and that's not what PDP wants right now

Wike has said that the northern candidates are against the Niger Delta. We all heard that.

They would go back to jeers and taunts from northerners for allowing themselves be humiliated by Wike.

Out of annoyance, they would surreptitiously work for APC.