Wike To PDP: “When The Time Comes, We Will Know Who Has The Capacity To Say This Is Where Our State Will Go”

By Adesina Soyooye

“We have not started campaign. When I came back yesterday (Sunday) where I went to enjoy myself, life is full of enjoyment. I went to enjoy my life, and they said I went for a meeting

The ante of the crisis between the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Camp of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, went a notch higher on Monday, September 5, 2022.

Wike, not for the first time, but this time, more emphatically, said he will direct his State where and how to vote in the oncoming 2023 General elections.

The Governor has been at loggerheads with the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku  Abubakar, and the leadership of the Party, since he lost out in the Presidential Primary, to Atiku  and the subsequent choice of Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, as Atiku’s running mate, thus dashing Wike’s expectations.

He has been openly romancing Presidential candidates of other Parties, especially, those of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, and  the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi.

Wike has not hidden the fact that he and his State may not vote Atiku, insisting that Rivers Votes are not for free.  Meaning that the State would, by his direction, go to the highest bidder, meanig again that it will go to who gives his people a better deal. To Wike, Party loyalty is secondary.

Speaking in Aba, Abia State, on Monday, September 5, 2022, where he went to inaugurate the Osisioma Flyover constructed by the Governor Ikpeazu administration, Wike took a swipe at the PDP.

He said the Party had already shared offices against 2023, in anticipation of its victory, but asked its leaders to wait till the campaign begins.

Boasting, he said Ikpeazu, who Wike claimed his State was excluded from the sharing of offices, has the  capacity of directing Abia people where to direct their votes to thus, indirectly saying that he, Wike, also has the  same capacity.

He said the abuses he receives do not move him because he enjoys them. He, however, taunted, “We will know who is relevant or not at the appropriate time. What is important is when the time comes, we will know those who have the capacity to say this is where our State will go.”

On his Camp’s alleged recent meeting with the APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu a couple of days ago in London, Wike made a joke of it. He said: “I went to enjoy myself. Life is full of enjoyment. I went to enjoy my life and they said I went for a meeting. My business now is to work and enjoy.”

Wike: “Nobody should bother about any abuses on me. I don’t even know whether they are abusing me. If they like let them put everything in social media and abuse me. We will know who is relevant or not at the appropriate time.

“Politics is not to go on pages of newspaper. It is not to go and buy TV spots and talk. Politics is who will deliver at the appropriate time. That is the key. If you like keep abusing me.

“What is important is when the time comes, we will know. When the jungle matures, we will know those who can stand crisis. We will know those who have the capacity to say this is where our state will go.

“Ikpeazu is one of those Governors with the capacity to decide what the people of Abia will do. So don’t bother yourselves.

“When I wake up in the morning and nothing had been said against me I am worried because it makes me happy when they talk about Wike. I appeal to them don’t stop keep talking about Wike.

“We have not started campaign. When I came back yesterday where I went to enjoy myself, life is full of enjoyment,  I went to enjoy my life.  And they said I went for a meeting. My business now is to work and enjoy”.