BREAKING: Wike Speaks On His Presidential Candidate

BREAKING: Wike Speaks On His Presidential Candidate

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike says he never told the public how he planned to announce his preferred presidential candidate in the upcoming election, despite mounting pressure.

All eyes are on Wike following his assurance last month that he would announce his preferred candidate.

Given his ongoing feud with the leadership of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following the emergence of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate in May 2022, his presidential candidate is considered significant.

Wike is one of five disgruntled PDP governors known as the G5 or Integrity Group, who have remained staunchly opposed to the North producing both the national chairman and the presidential candidate.

They have refused to campaign for Atiku, citing the need for equity, fairness, and justice.

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Dakuku Peterside, former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), challenged Wike on Tuesday to name his presidential candidate as expected.

The Rivers governor, on the other hand, retaliated against the APC member.

“I never told anybody one day, I will bring a camera and announce to you this is who will go. I said I will tell Rivers people the candidate they will support. I did not tell you the method of saying it. I did not tell you I will bring live coverage and say it. But Rivers people know.”

Wike also chastised Peterside for his defeats in the 2015 and 2019 governorship elections.

“Look at this small boy whom I flogged in 2015. I don’t know where they say he comes from – is it Abia or Opobo side, which of the areas? Envy! I flogged him out in 2015.

“He has not recovered from that. He thought they would give him a ticket in 2019, but he didn’t get [it]. They sent him to be NIMASA. Ask him, what did he bring for Rivers people?

“You have a position, you cannot help your people, and you’re coming out to open your mouth, simply because you didn’t get [the ticket] and they did not give you a second term to be DG of NIMASA,” he said.

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