ONYEDI GABRIEl, Port Harcourt
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has diagnosed the political illnesses of the two major political parties saying while the All Progressives Congress (APC) was infected with the deadly cancer, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was only suffering from malaria.
Wike said he would never abandon his party, whose sickness was curable for terminally ill APC, adding that the cancer in APC had reached the last stage.
He said: “Defect to where? I have malaria, is it cancer that I am looking for? I have malaria that is easy to treat, now you want me to go and get cancer that will kill me immediately.
“Is it APC, a party that has killed Nigeria. I will stay in PDP and fight. If they win me no problem and if I win them, so be it. But I know they won’t win me. But to leave PDP that has malaria to APC, no way. The stage of the cancer in APC is the last stage where doctors always say it is hard to recover”.
When asked whether he was corrupt, Wike said: “I cannot say I am corrupt. But I will say I am not a perfect person. If you say I like money yes. If I don’t have money, how can I pay my children’s school fees and treat my sick mother. Those who say they don’t like money are lying”, he said.