Wike: Ondo Governorship Election Was Sabotaged |The Source

By Adesina Soyooye

Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State, Friday morning, gave reasons why his party, the People’s Democratic Party, lost the Ondo State Governorship election.

The Party’s candidate, Eyitayo Jegede, lost to the incumbent Governor and candidate of the APC, Rotimi   Akeredolu, by a margin of about 93,000 votes.

Speaking in an interview on an AIT programme, Wike said the party lost to sabotage within the Party.

He said one of the reasons the PDP lost was because there were members of the party in the state who sabotaged the party during the election.

The party, he said, lost because it went into the  election divided. There was no unity. The party  was not united. Wike said he tried to draw the Party’s attention to the situation.

He disclosed that it was exactly the same situation that he tried hard to avoid in Edo state  during the September 19 election.  In Edo, he said, everybody was brought in. They came together. And worked together.

He said that did not happen in Ondo. Because of the disunity, members of the party, he revealed, worked against the party’s candidate.

When asked if rigging did not contribute to the loss, he was of the view that rigging cannot quite take place where one is not popular. He gave an example with Rivers state saying: “They tried to rig in Rivers, but they did not support because they just couldn’t”.