By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
THE Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has threatened to help the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) lose the 2023 presidential election.
The governor issued the threat at the inauguration of the internal road in Omerelu community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers on Thursday.
The governor, while responding to recent comments by the National Chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, said the chairman was exhibiting brazen arrogance.
“Dr Ayu said we are children. Yes, the children brought you from the gutter to make you chairman.
“Now we have seen that you don’t want the party to win election; we will help you.
“These children you said we are, that brought you from nothing.
“Ayu, you said you founded this party, but you left PDP in 2007.
“You founded a company, you left the company, people stood and brought out the company to what it is today.
“You have no moral right to still come and claim that you founded that company, you left with your shares.
“You want to show integrity, you want to show a party to Nigeria that we want to take over, you must convince Nigerians that we have the integrity.
“You are the driver that will drive the vehicle to convey us to go our destination. That is the victory we are looking for.
“If the driver has no integrity and cannot show honesty, how do you convince Nigerians?
“If you tell Nigerians something and cannot do it, is it when you enter into power that you will do it?
“Nigerians have seen how ungrateful some of you can be, and that’s why Nigerians also want to be careful, if we give these people power, are you sure they will also be grateful to Nigerians,” he queried.
Stonix News reports that Wike has been at loggerhead with the leadership of the party shortly after the presidential primaries that saw Atiku Abubakar, a northerner, emerging candidate against the gentlemanly of the party as regards zoning.
Wike has since been in the forefront of demanding the compulsory resignation of Ayu as chairman in favour of a southern chairman to balance the equation.
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