Dogara Says Wike Suffers From Amnesia, Threatens To Expose Him

By Adesina Soyooye

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has come under the slammer by former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.

Trouble began when Wike slammed Dogara for supporting the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar.

Wike had presented Dogara as a betrayer who says something else, and does something else. Wike, even though of the same Party with Atiku, says he will not support Atiku except certain conditions, including the resignation of the National Chairman of the Party, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, are made.

Wike had said of Dogara in a Television interview:

“What I don’t like in life is people that don’t have character. I can’t stand it. At the appropriate time, I would challenge them to a debate.

“Ask Dogara, What made you leave PDP?  Dogara was to see me. Unknown to me, he gave me an excuse, and I was watching Dogara on TV being received by President Muhammadu Buhari that he has gone to APC.”

But Dogara, in swift response posted on his Tweeter handle, told Wike off.

He threatened to expose the Governor, and make public what they has discussed. He asked Wike to bring it on if that is what he wants.

He asked Wike why he, Wike, thinks he is the only person entitled to a “certain set of principles”, the only person who is always right.

He said Wike is suffering from amnesia and is waiting on him for a written consent to divulge their private discussion.

Dogara:  “To my brother, Governor Nyesom Wike: if there is anything you are suffering from, I never thought amnesia would be one of them.

“Why would you think no one, except you, is entitled to a certain set of principles he/she cannot compromise? It’s such a pity if you cannot remember what our discussion [and] agreement was all about.

“Why should only your own position be respected and followed? I would never betray a friend and a brother that is why I won’t respond to your tirade on live TV.

“The details of our conversation [is] sealed up with me but if you feel it’s okay to throw it to the public, kindly give me [a] written consent to divulge it so that the public can judge who is saying the truth. Thank God there was a witness!”

Dogara, who, with his group, endorsed Atiku on Saturday, dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Monday at the PDP Presidential Rally in Lagos.

On Sunday, the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, appointed him as a member in a letter signed by the Director General, Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal.