As the 2023 election approaches, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said kinship with the major ethnic group should not be the deciding factor in who emerges the president of Nigeria.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Governor Wike spoke at the inauguration of the Nkpolu-Oroworukwo flyover. on Thursday.
There is a cold war between Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Wike who lost the PDP presidential ticket to Atiku has joined forces with some of his colleagues in the party’s Governors Forum to demand the removal of the national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu (from Benue State). According to him, it is wrong to have two northerners occupying two of the most important positions in the PDP.
Governors Wike and some of his colleagues have boycotted the PDP presidential campaigns held so far.
Speaking on Thursday, the Rivers State governor stated that there are so many people who had left office for years and have gathered around a political actor in their desperation to force themselves back to power
“All they want to do, let us get the opportunity to come back to power. Nigerians, we must open our eyes. You (politicians) must sell yourself; this is me. You must not sell yourself because you belong to a major ethnic group. Every vote in this country will count.
“Time is over when anybody thinks that you can win election because you’re from so and so place. Nigeria has past that stage.
“We want a Nigeria that all of us believe that we are from here. We want a Nigeria that I have hope that I can become anything tomorrow, not because I came from a small place,” Wike said.
My Governor
Well spoken, it’s high time born to rule ethnic groups. Be warn you re dividing and destroying this country Nigeria…..
wike dont convince anybody stop makïng a noice ,are u not there when ayu was voted in as pdp national chairman what did u said by them,tïll u contested and lost before u started shouted to remove him .
Please sir after know fully well that’s justice fairness and iniquity why not allowed some body from south East after fairly to image as PDP flag bearer you kept taking of marginalization
To hell with Atiku. Jumping from PDP to APC to help a Fulani man become President (Buhari) and running back to PDP to become President, why????? The last tribe to enter the territorial space named Nigeria wants to lord it over native Nigerians. It is over for them for a very long time Thank you Govs. Wike, Ortom et al.