Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, claims he was alarmed to find that Peter Obi, a candidate for the Labour Party (LP), had received the former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s support.
After Obasanjo announced his support, the governor had harsh words for Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential contender who served as Obasanjo’s vice president from 1999 to 2007.
Several PDP members, notably Senator Dino Melaye, the spokesperson for the party’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), sharply criticised Wike’s remarks, accusing him of disrespect and unjustified insult toward the former vice president.
Wike, however, disagreed, asserting on Tuesday during the Mgbuodohia Road construction flag-off that his intentions were good and that he wasn’t mocking anybody
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“I meant no bad. I’m only worried as a prominent PDP member. A man who loves PDP should be worried. That’s all – my concern. I was not mocking anybody,”
“I was merely worried because my prayer was ‘Let Obasanjo remain quiet and not say anything.’ That was my prayer but my prayer didn’t work.
“My prayer was that if this man makes any statement, it indicts us because he was president under the Peoples Democratic Party for eight years and he worked with our presidential candidate for eight years.
“One now concludes that having done so, then the principal will hand over to [him] having thought that this is the person that I think should do this job better. But when the principal has said, ‘No, it’s another person,’ it worried me and that’s why I said something is fundamentally wrong.”
Wike went on to chastise people who were criticising him on Atiku’s behalf, stating they should instead be looking for a solution to the problems he had highlighted.
“Instead of them to say, ‘What do you think is wrong?’ you are abusing me. What did I do? I didn’t do anything; all I [expressed] was a concern: ‘something is fundamentally wrong.’
“If you care for this party, it is for you to now go back [and ask]: ‘What is it that is fundamentally wrong that this man did what he did?’ And then you’re abusing me. I don’t understand. You’re abusing the man that is worried that the party should do something.
“I’ve told people, those who love this party – those who know that if anything happens to this party are those who are worried about the party, not those who are moving around every day.
“They are not bothered but those of us who since 1998, we joined this party, contributed for the survival of this party till now, that’s why we’re always shouting,” he said.
The governor echoed the views of the G5 or Integrity Group, a group consisting of him and four other aggrieved PDP governors, saying the issue was not about him, but equity, fairness and justice.
“I don’t need anything. If anybody thinks that you can just sit in your house and dish our orders, it will not work. The house will collapse on you. So, you better think twice. So, stop sending all these your errand who don’t have any jobs. I have a job, that’s why I’m working up till now till May 29,” he said.
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