2023: Wike Predicts Turbulence At PDP’s Presidential Candidate’s Selection

By Akinwale Kasali

With less than 14 months to the 2023 Presidential Election, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that the process of selecting the Presidential candidate of opposition Party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the polls will be turbulent.

The PDP stalwart in an interview with National Television in Port Harcourt, the State Capital, said the process will not be easy.

In his words, “Let nobody come and tell you that in arriving at a Presidential candidate that it will be easy. No way, it can never be. You know, there are two types of turbulence.

“There is turbulence that will not have a crash, which is a normal turbulence. There is turbulence that will likely lead to a crash. Our own turbulence in PDP is the normal turbulence, which I believe we will get through it, but APC turbulence is a turbulence that is likely to lead to a crash.

“PDP has redeemed its position towards what Nigerians are expecting, because Nigerians are tired of what is going on in the country. So they need an alternative, and the only alternative as it is today is the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP),” he said.

The Rivers State Governor stressed that he is bent on supporting a candidate who will not mortgage the Party, and would be selfless in leadership.

“And so, if you want to run for Presidency under PDP, I will not support somebody who’ll just want to bear the name of former Presidential candidate, I will not agree to that. I must see that you are prepared for it, and to confront this evil called APC.”

The Rivers State Governor added that he feels fulfilled that PDP got it right with its National convention, adding that there is a new competent National Working Committee, NWC, in the Party.

He dismissed insinuations in some quarters that PDP Governors forced an early Convention on the party because they wanted the sole control of the PDP.

According to him, any true party man will love a PDP that is stable, focused and forward-looking.

He maintained that already the new leadership of the PDP, is waiting eagerly

to be sworn in on December 9, 2021, and would begin to engage Nigerians and other party members on identifying what the problems are and how to address them.

“Nigerians are tired of the misrule of APC and will not allow their evil to continue beyond 2023.

“Nigerians are waiting. Nigerians cannot have this type of evil come up again in 2023. We will be doing a disservice to Nigerians to allow this to continue,” he stated.