Rift between River State Governor Nyesom Wike and his Edo State counterpart, Godwin Obaseki, has got messier.
This is as Wike said on Monday that betrayal runs in Obaseki’s DNA, adding that the Edo State governor is a serial betrayer.
FirstNews had reported that Obaseki slammed Wike over his reaction to comments by Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, that PDP members who defected from the APC in Edo were not happy and do not feel accepted into the new party.
But responding, Wike, while addressing a crowd at the commissioning of a secondary school in Omuanwa community, Rivers State, on Monday said:
“If you check the DNA of Obaseki, what you will see in that DNA is betrayal, serial betrayal, and ungratefulness.
“Let me stand today to apologise to Adams Oshiomhole who has been vindicated by telling us that we will see the true colour, the insincerity, the ungratefulness of Governor Obaseki.
“We have voted for PDP since 1999 till now; ask Governor Obaseki if he has done anything for PDP (or) voted for PDP. The only election he voted for was his own election – where we gave him an umbrella.”
Wike told the crowd that he made great efforts to ensure Obaseki was re-elected Edo State governor, as he served as the Director-General (DG) of Obaseki’s Campaign Organisation in 2020.
He said, “Let me clearly say without any apology to anybody that one of the problems in this country is leadership – people who cannot stand firm and say: this is white; this is black at all times.
“I am not in the class of Obaseki, never! We are not the same, we can’t be the same. I was the DG of his campaign, I went there (to Edo) for three days. I stayed there without having my bath. I have never seen somebody like that in my life – a serial betrayer.
“Let me tell you Obaseki, I know your cohorts and I will smoke all of you out. This is not the Benin artifact that you were challenging the Oba (of Benin), this is politics. Obaseki, I have more stake in PDP than you. I have fought for this party, mention one thing that you have done for the PDP.”