…accuses PDP presidential candidate of working with Rivers’ enemies
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike says he won’t campaign for the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, because of his appointment of the enemies of the state into his Campaign Council.
Wike, who stated this while addressing PDP stakeholders and supporters in Port Harcourt during the inauguration of the Rivers State PDP Campaign Rally on Monday, said Atiku picked only those he wanted to work with in Rivers.
According to him, “If he wants us to work with him, if he wants us to campaign for him, he would have talked to us.
“They said they don’t want us to campaign for them; if anyone wants us to campaign for them, they will come and meet us. The presidential candidate has chosen enemies of the state as members of his Campaign Council, even me the Governor of the state, I do not have any input.
“If anybody did not accommodate the interest of Rivers State, we will also not have their interest at heart.”
There had been several reported of the Rivers government shutting down hotels, filling stations and other businesses of some of Atiku’s associates in the state.
Senator Ledogo Maeba, former Chairman of the Board of Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, Rumola, while commenting on the purported clampdown on Atiku’s men, said the governor dissolved the board of the polytechnic because of his closeness to Atiku. But he vowed to keep supporting Atiku.
Wike, in a public address where he vowed to fight whoever challenged his system, said it does not matter how long someone has known another person, but the value he/she has added to the person.
“If anybody fights our system, we will fight the person back. Let me tell you what you don’t understand in politics. The moment you claim to be working with us and tomorrow, you shift to our enemy, we will use every might we have against you. We would even leave our enemy and finish you. So, all of you who are going to Abuja to hold meetings with our enemies, I will finish you. You can’t come here get contracts, make money, then go to Abuja to work against us and think I will leave you? I will not. I’m not a born again to that level. I’m a Christian, but not a born again to that level. If you touch me or any of my people, you will see the war.”