•I want APC to fail, I’m praying for more confusion, division in the party

Tobi Soniyi and Bayo Akinloye

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike yesterday said that he had nothing against the Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki.

Speaking during an exclusive interview with Arise Television News Channel, Wike said that his position on Edo State was that everyone must be carried along so that the PDP would not fall into the same problem the APC had in the state.

Wike said that people must realise that there were people in Edo State PDP who have been making sacrifices for the party when Obaseki was in APC and that such people must be heard and persuaded about Obaseki’s entry into the party so that everybody would work together for the interest of the party.

He said that but for his insistence on following due process and carrying everyone along, Obaseki would not have emerged as the party’s candidate in Edo.

“Carrying people along does not mean giving money. That is the mistake people make. It means listening to them, appealing to them and making them recognise the greater interest of the party”, he said.

Wike said that multiple lawsuits would have been flying around if the issues were not amicably resolved and that the governor would not have been able to concentrate on campaign.

He advised political parties to keep their houses in order and stop giving judiciary problems.

The governor said that for PDP to take back Edo State, members of the party must be united and that that was his position.

He said that as a South-south governor, he wanted the whole zone to be controlled by one political party.

The governor said he was happy with the circumstances that brought Obaseki to the PDP. “I am happy that APC is in crisis. It is not my business to help APC to be united. Remember that we also had our own crisis under Ali Modu Sheriff and APC jubilated about it then. It is my prayer that they should continue to be in crisis. We have taken another state. Unfortunately, APC isn’t really a political party. They came together just to take over power. I want my party to be in power and therefore, I cannot be praying for APC not to have crisis. I hope they continue to make mistakes everyday and my party will continue to grow.”

He however, said that it was wrong to blame him for APC’s crisis in Rivers State saying that he has nothing to do with it.

According to him, the APC is having crisis because members of the party are not united and that it is wrong to blame outsiders like him for the party’s crisis.

Reacting to the threat by a group loyal to the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi to destabilise Rivers State, Wike said that it was unfortunate that the APC-led government had not done anything about the threat.

“I watched the video of one of the minister’s supporters threatening to burn down institutions in Nigeria. In fact, he is said to be a cousin of the minister. Yet Amaechi is claiming to be a non-violent person. Don’t forget it was Amaechi who for the first time in the history of the state, shut down the court for nearly two years and now his supporters are threatening to burn down the state. No security agency has arrested or cautioned them.

“Amaechi is claiming that he is not a man of violence but we are not children. We know what’s going on. He’s in charge of the police, army, and the other security agency. His cousin threatening a unit of the federation and the president did not say anything.”

Taking a swipe at President Buhari’s inaction, the governor added, “President Buhari came for a campaign here and the minister who says he doesn’t believe in violence sang a war song in Igbo land, saying in that election there would be war. What happened? Nobody cautioned him. Security agencies didn’t caution him.”

Speaking on the initial crisis that rocked the PDP over the waiver to Obaseki, Wike explained, If there’s one man who loves PDP, who has stood by PDP, who continues to stand by PDP, I am such a man. What I have always said is that politics is a game you must play with everybody; sometimes there’ll be disagreements.

In his reaction to a deputy commissioner for police who flouted the executive order of the state on COVID-19, Wike accused the federal government and security agencies of playing double standard following the recent transfer of the state’s commissioner of police and other top security officials.

He said there had been attempts to put Rivers State in bad light because it is an opposition state adding that the people of the state understood the politics and remained supportive of the state government.

Wike said that Amaechi was not telling the truth when he claimed that the last time he visited Rivers State was January 2019.

He said Amaechi was in Rivers during the election, and that he came after the election and was also there before the outbreak of COVID-19.

“There is no way he will come to Rivers and I will not know. It is part of the campaign to blackmail the state. He wants to paint the state black. It is not true”, he said.

Wike also defended his handling of the novel Coronavirus in Rivers saying that he had done very well. He defended the arrest of two pilots of Caverton Helicopters saying that 70 per cent of Covid-19 were brought into the state by oil workers. He dismissed the claim that the pilots were on essential service.

The governor said that he insisted that whoever was being flown into the state should report to the state for testing before they move to their various working places.

“I told them that they could not just bring in people and requested that they let the state know whoever they are bringing into the state so that our health officials can check them. What is wrong with that? Shell complied, NLNG complied. Are those ones not on essential services?”

He also defended the demolition of the hotel that opened while the state had ordered all hotels be shut, saying that he did it to save lives.

Wike also dismissed the claim that he planned to run for the presidency in 2023 saying, “for now, am not going to run for the presidency of Nigeria. My job for now is to develop Rivers State. 2023 may be the problem in APC because it is the ruling party. The president is going so someone wants to take over. But as PDP who are you taking over from? I just took over one year ago. If I start to think of presidency I will not be able to deliver dividends of democracy. That is the problem you see in APC.”

Wike also said that it was not for him to decide which zone the PDP should zone the presidency to, saying that the party’s National Executive Committee will decide at the appropriate time.

He said some members of the party had said that the presidency should be zoned to the North while a host of others disagreed.

“What we are seeing today is how APC that has failed Nigerians and that should not continue. How we can come out of this calamity we have found ourselves. We are in a serious crisis. Our concern is how our party will take over and move Nigeria forward. At the appropriate time, we will meet and decide.”

On the possibility that Atiku will run in 2023, he said that it is Atiku Abubakar’s fundamental human right to run for the presidency.

Wike said his concern for now is to get the PDP more organised, “get more states and when the time comes members will sit down to determine who should run.”

The governor further said that if PDP zones the presidency to the south and Chibuike Amaechi is running under the PDP, he would back him.

But he said that if Amaechi was to run under APC, it would amount to anti-party activity for him (Wike) to support him.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/06/28/wike-i-didnt-plot-against-obaseki/

Tax collectors. Them don empty Edo state account

Wike the APC mole in PDP, double spy agent like Dave umahi , PDP in the morning, APC at night

I can see through his Drama

*He installed Modu Sheriff Buhari's in law and 2 terms ANPP Governor on PDP

*Intentionaly installed another Political weakling like Secondus on PDP, rigging out strong politicians, ex ministers , ex Governor and Senators

*Fought Atiku's Nomination and vowed not to work for him in 2019 election

*Faulted Peter Obi's emergence

*First PDP Governor to congratulate Buhari on his Election Tribunal victory urging PDP not to waste time on supreme court

* Fought Sieriake Dickson , Ignored Diri's Campaign and secretly supported David Lyon

* Sponsored an Edo PDP Aspirant to file a litigation at Rivers High Court were his wife is a Judge to bar Obaseki from contesting Edo Primaries

*Openly called PDP a party of Tax Collectors making allegations that Obaseki bought PDP chieftains (which he truly did)




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Hnnm

In any election in Nigeria, any particular candidate the Igbo support, his election will go the Atiku way. If i lie, ask Goodluck Jonathan, Ojukwu, Sarakı, Dino Melaye e.t.c

I am beginning to despise Wike's double standard...

Sensible talk.

Bighead9:
In any election in Nigeria, any particular candidate the Igbo support, his election will go the Atiku way. If i lie, ask Goodluck Jonathan, Ojukwu, Sarakı, Dino Melaye e.t.c

usual zombie trash from the usual tribal bigots


That was how you guys where calling asiwaju national leader , making his head swell till he fell inside a very obvious pit.

This beautiful thread because of pain and frustration of losing edo forever yiu re now throwing tribal tantrums, very common with yiu guys. I cant say I'm disappointed

techmo:




Wike the APC mole in PDP, double spy agent like Dave umahi , PDP in the morning, APC at night

I can see through his Drama

*He installed Modu Sheriff Buhari's in law and 2 terms ANPP Governor on PDP

*Intentionaly installed another Political weakling like Secondus on PDP, rigging out strong politicians, ex ministers , ex Governor and Senators

*Fought Atiku's Nomination and vowed not to work for him in 2019 election

*Faulted Peter Obi's emergence

*First PDP Governor to congratulate Buhari on his Election Tribunal victory urging PDP not to waste time on supreme court

* Fought Sieriake Dickson , Ignored Diri's Campaign and secretly supported David Lyon

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and yet wike Dickson, and ayade re the main reason pdp is still standing, or you think it's cheap to keep a political party going? Why not listen to wike when he talks then. But no. People that contribute almost nothing to the party re doing the talking. And let me ask you is wike wrong to make sure edo pdp members that will be stepping down for obaseki re not aggrieved ?



And its not like I believe you are a party man yourself. Just the usual online troll and a prominent son of Esu, pls get lost.

Wike keep quiet. you don't own PDP. it must not be your way all the time.


all Edo matters have been resolved

But your statements during his travails to get the PDP ticket was insensitive. You've only crawled back, seeing that he succeeded. If other PDP governors behaved like you did, Obaseki would have either been finished now or would have defected to KOWA to realise his second term ambition

Bighead9:
In any election in Nigeria, any particular candidate the Igbo support, his election will go the Atiku way. If i lie, ask Goodluck Jonathan, Ojukwu, Sarakı, Dino Melaye e.t.c

who supported the sniper drinker aka rat poison?

Captainrambo2:
usual zombie trash from the usual tribal bigots


That was how you guys where calling asiwaju national leader , making his head swell till he fell inside a very obvious pit.

This beautiful thread because of pain and frustration of losing edo forever yiu re now throwing tribal tantrums, very common with yiu guys. I cant say I'm disappointed

E pain this man very well.


I'm an Igbo man. I relocate to Benin in search of greener pasture, cause the East is no longer viable for business. . That's why the election in Edo state Interest me and Obaseki must go cause he is incompetent.

Captainrambo2:
and yet wike Dickson, and ayade re the main reason pdp is still standing, or you think it's cheap to keep a political party going? Why not listen to wike when he talks then. But no. People that contribute almost nothing to the party re doing the talking. And let me ask you is wike wrong to make sure edo pdp members that will be stepping down for obaseki re not aggrieved ?



And its not like I believe you are a party man yourself. Just the usual online troll and a prominent son of Esu, pls get lost.

Oga have sense for once Na

Wike is only sponsoring PDP for 2023 and all the stupid stunt of him fighting Obaseki because of Edo PDP loyalist is a big lie, we all know PDP tax collector in Edo would had gotten a fair deal from Obaseki

And why did Wike secretly sponsored a litigation through an aspirant in Rivers High Court to have Obaseki barred from contesting?

Captainrambo2:
usual zombie trash from the usual tribal bigots


That was how you guys where calling asiwaju national leader , making his head swell till he fell inside a very obvious pit.

This beautiful thread because of pain and frustration of losing edo forever yiu re now throwing tribal tantrums, very common with yiu guys. I cant say I'm disappointed

Who are those that are making tinubu head swell..

If there is any Nigeria politician I pray he picked my call, it is tinubu...

According to davido we rise by lifting others, Do you wonder why Tinubu still remain a stumbling block in our democratic settings and his influence never fade away because he has lifted many, from vice president to speaker, to governors, senators, member house of rep, to party chairman, king etc.. tinubu loyalties are everywhere in this government, he has built a strong pillar that his oppositions within the party are watching carefully with Keen interest, not sure of where and how the next move might hit them....

I did... Woke is right

OK

I am more interested in selling to you the need for a tracking device for the safety of your cars

Bighead9:
In any election in Nigeria, any particular candidate the Igbo support, his election will go the Atiku way. If i lie, ask Goodluck Jonathan, Ojukwu, Sarakı, Dino Melaye e.t.c

What an irony, their support means doom to the candidate political aspirations.
Even the devil can't be this badluck.

That is your business.

When will all this allegation and counter allegation stop. PDP make una free us o

No one has come to blame tinubu

Buhari - Osho, you see that empty river there?

Oshomole - Yes Baba, I see it. What about it?

Me - It will be filled with your tears if you don’t geddifok out of my APC

We saw it in Tinubu's The Nation Newspaper which was releasing statements daily from APC Acting Chairman Late Ajimobi, the only stopped and announced Ajimobi's death just immediately Buhari dissolved the NWC, that fraud is more than Hushpuppi own

Politics.


The game of interest at it's best.

God is on Obasekis side
He will win the election for us all against Godfatherism

Ok