Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers has revealed he and his four other colleagues in the New Integrity Group faction of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP would soon finalise talks on their preferred presidential candidate for the February 25 election.
Wike revealed this on Tuesday at the State’s PDP rally in the Ikwerre Local Government Area where he insisted that the people of the state know their political bearings and will not play second fiddle in the February 25 and March 11 2023.
“Now, it is one man, one vote. All the votes must be in one basket from governorship to House of Assembly. The other one we are concluding. When we conclude, you will be told,” he told the party supporters at the event.
“Nobody should intimidate you. Nobody should tell you any story. We are free born of this country. We are not second-class citizens. Nobody can tell us anything. I dare them. Let anybody do any funny thing, We’ll tell them we are from Rivers State.”
Wike also said the 2023 elections is a fight to finish. “This election we are going for is a fight to finish and we are very ready. We are waiting for those strangers, those people who can sell their state for a pot of porridge, we are waiting for them to come back. Do they have anything to offer?” he asked his supporters who chorused a loud, “No”.
The G5 has been at loggerheads with PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Iyorchia Ayu over the chairmanship of the latter. The five dissatisfied governors want Ayu to step down for a southerner as a precondition to support Atiku’s decade-long ambition in the February 25 presidential election. But Ayu has insisted that he would only resign after his four-year constitutional term.
