Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State and a presidential candidate in 2023, has reaffirmed his support for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) regardless of the outcome of the party’s presidential election.
Despite boasting that he is the only candidate the PDP can produce to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023, Wike stated that he has no choice but to return to the party that has backed him for so long.
He also made a dig at party politicians who had switched to other parties in the past owing to poor outcomes.
The Rivers Governor declared that he is not like them, promising to stick with the PDP through thick and thin and assist the party’s election victory.
According to a statement released by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, he made the remarks while engaging with PDP delegates from Ogun State in Abeokuta as part of his bid to become the party’s standard bearer for the 2023 presidential election.
“Whether I win the ticket or not, I will never leave PDP. I will support PDP, I will make sure PDP wins the election. I am not those when anything happens they run away from the party. I will not leave this party because everything I am today, it is PDP that has given it to me. So I owe PDP a lot,” he was quoted to have said.
He added that he already enjoys massive support across all the regions in Nigeria and all that remains is the party ticket for him to go and win the 2023 presidential election for the PDP.
“Everywhere, Wike has taken over. Go to the north it’s Wike; go to the east, it’s Wike, go to the west, it’s Wike, go to the south, it’s Wike. Ogun state is Wike. Everybody, it’s Wike.”
If elected President of Nigeria, the Rivers State Governor boasted that he would put a stop to banditry within his first six months in office.
He stated that whatever the security agencies require to make this happen will be delivered, since growth cannot occur without peace.
He said; “Once there is insecurity you can’t do anything. You must have peace for investors to come in, for people to set up industries. So the basic thing in my first six months as president of Nigeria is to end banditry. All those bandits, let them wait for me. I will pursue them. It is my job. I will provide to security agencies whatever they require.”
He accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Nigeria’s problems on many fronts, but promised to remedy the wrongs if elected.
“Today, we are suffering. We are in opposition. Who are those who plotted against us? Who are those who masterminded for us to lose the 2015 election? Today, we are crying that we are in opposition, today we are fighting how to take back power. Who are those people who took the power that PDP had and gave it to APC. You know them.”
“Nigeria has never been divided a country as is divided today. Our founding fathers never made mistake that there should be a country called Nigeria. God never made mistake that there should be a country called Nigeria,” Wike said.
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