Politicians distracting voters with same faith ticket’s argument – Wike

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike on Friday said that politicians are deceiving the electorate and keeping them busy on arguments around same faith ticket ahead of the 2023 election.

“Is that our problem now? “The governor queried insisting that “we need leadership to move this country forward”.

The Governor spoke during the inauguration of the Rivers House of Assembly Quarters, an estate tastefully completed by his administration to provide befitting accomodations to the state lawmakers.

The Governor blamed concocted reports including the viral insinuations that he dismantled all flags of the PDP in Government House, Port Harcourt, on members of Atiku’s group.

He said instead of discussing strategies that would make Atiku win elections, the candidate’s men were busy plotting their principal’s downfall.

Wike said: “People have said I went to court against Atiku Abubakar. I want to say categorically that if I had a reason to go to court I will go to court. But I didn’t go to court. I just have to say it for Nigerians to know. I have kept quiet and busy delivering dividends of democracy for my party to win election; people are busy plotting how they will win election, but others are busy trying to see how they will lose election.

“If they lose election nobody should call my name. I have told the candidate, you will lose this election and you will win this election because of people around you. Anybody who knows me know that if I was going to court , I would have gone to court within two weeks after the primaries because it is a pre election matter and after two weeks you can’t go to the court.

“The Legal Adviser of the party called me and I told him you know there is a mischief going on, that you know me very well if I am going to court it is not those kind of lawyers I would have used and I don’t even know the lawyers. I want to tell the candidate that it is his group that are doing all these things. Let the world hear.

“They are the ones plotting all these things thinking that they would spoil my name. You cannot. The other day they said I removed all PDP flags in Government House. We are supposed to be talking about how you will win election not about these people. They are not doing him any favour rather they are trying to make him not to win election

” They are not doing him any favour rather they are trying to make him not to win election but if that is what they want, I wish them good luck.

“But after my commissioning of projects nobody should say Wike had started. When I start, I have been on my own they are looking for my trouble. Allow peace to reign. If you say your mother will not sleep you too you will not sleep at the appropriate time”.

Wike asked Atiku to direct mischief makers around him to return to their individual states and work for his victory at the poll.

He said: “I am busy commissioning projects, tell those who are supporting you to also go and commission projects to win their states. This is my own campaign to make our candidates to win an election.

“Leave me to do my work but you are worried, concocting things everyday. Social media cannot make you to win an election. Election is by the people. Tell those who are with you in Abuja to go home and campaign for you. Leave Wike alone”.

Wike recalled how he led the plot to deny Femi Gbajabiamila, the speakership of the House of Representatives and Ahmed Lawan the Presidency of the Senate.

He said the PDP governors and other leaders betrayed their collective position and went behind him to support Gbajabiamila.

Despite working against the Speaker, Gbajabiamila had not witheld any good thing that should come to Rivers adding that he intervened to ensure that money owed Rivers by the Federal Government was paid to the State.

Wike said: “Mr. Speaker I didn’t invite you here because you are an APC member. I invited you because of the role you played for Rivers State to get their money and I said come and see what I have done with part of that money.

“I was one of the last state that the federal government refunded money. Nobody wanted to give me because they said I am fighting for PDP. But you helped me without demanding a dime from me.

“I was one of those who plotted that you should not be speaker. I have no regrets because my business is not to help their party that time even now. My business is to make you people uncomfortable.

“It was in Government House Lodge Rivers State in Abuja where we plotted he should not go. PDP governors sold me out. They supported you even when we have agreed as a party that Femi should not go, Lawan should not go.

“They went back and supported you. That was why you made Ndudi Elumelu, the Minority Leader even when we wrote you a letter against it. People don’t like the truth but the truth must be told at all times. They are the people who sold PDP. The truth must be told at all time. Now they are saying we will impeach Buhari.”