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April 16, 2021

By Mike Odiegwu, Port Harcourt

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has said anybody jostling to be president of Nigeria will need to secure votes in Rivers to combine with either Kano or Lagos to win.

He said such a pivotal position established the importance of Rivers in the political scheme of the country, and nobody would be allowed to undermine it.

Wike, in a statement by his Special Assistant, Media, Kelvin Ebiri, spoke at the grand finale of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) local government election campaign at Ulakwo in Etche Local Government Area yesterday.

He said: “I keep telling the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that no state has given more votes to the party than Rivers.

“And it is only in Rivers, in the whole of Southsouth, that the All Progressives Congress (APC) didn’t get 25 per cent votes in 2019 General Elections. We taught them a lesson.

“In Nigeria, nobody wins presidency if you didn’t win either Rivers and Lagos or Kano and Lagos together. Rivers is not a state anybody can joke with. Some states went to negotiate with them. Rivers didn’t do it.”

Wike criticised Senator Andrew Uchendu for his alleged uncanny comments in the media and wondered what courage he had to talk against the PDP istration that was ending the suffering he inflicted on his people.

He said: “I was watching Arise Television the other day, and I heard Senator Andrew Uchendu and the Chief Medical Director of University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. The CMD said I asked him to indict the former governor. I don’t know that he has such judicial power. I don’t also know his basis.

“He (CMD) set up a target. The man was lobbying to be a commissioner where our former party chairman comes from without even doing due consultation. Because I didn’t give him commissioner, he ran and started to abuse me.”

The governor said it was regrettable that Uchendu spent many years in the National Assembly and was close to the former istration in the state but could not fix the road leading to his village.

He said: “I am going there to flag off the road and to tell his (Uchendu) community, see what your son couldn’t give you. He (Uchendu) has collected the contract from NDDC every year, he abandoned it. I am going to shame him by doing that road.”

Wike said the fortunes of Etche people improved under the PDP-led istration in the state.

According to him, under his istration, Etche sons have been appointed as Vice-Chancellor of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education and also as a judge.

He said his istration established a campus of the River State University in Etche and awarded contracts for the Igbo-Etche -Rumuokwurushi Road, Olakwor-Nihi Road, and the Chokocho-Ozuzu Road that was abandoned by Ogbonna Nwuke, despite being paid for the project.

Wike said Etche would continue to be relevant in the political scheme of the State and be part of the process of discussion among stakeholders in deciding the next governor of the state.

“If I say I will do something, I will do it. Ordinarily, if Nigeria is a place of true democracy where votes count, no party can campaign in this state. Their hope is to use security?

“Have you seen second tenure governor working as we are doing? It is because of the love we have for this state. We all own this state together. All those threats of what they’ll do in 2023 are all foul talks,” he said.

The governor urged the people of Etche to continue to work in unison ahead of 2023.

https://thenationonlineng.net/presidential-poll-rivers-is-as-important-as-lagos-kano-says-wike/

Then Amaechi should contest for President not a drunking master.

After 2023, this one will become like Fayose

Wike is trying to bargain. He will soon sell the state to Tinubu.

bobowaja:
Wike is trying to bargain. He will soon sell the state to Tinubu.

Chai guyu dey reason deep...

pquaver:


Chai guy u dey reason deep...

I plan to play politics at bigger level in the future so I gat deh reason like them.

I hail you

bobowaja:
Wike is trying to bargain. He will soon sell the state to Tinubu.

Bad guy

I agree with him.

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What's the essence of stating an undisputed obvious?
No state is underdog if the system is right.

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This man would have been better off being an HYPE MAN.......

All of them should just gerrout

This one would just wake up one morning and start to talk nonsense..

The inflated Rivers state and SS votes in general by Pdp are reducing after election cycle... Pdp can no longer write election figures the way they used to do

Comparing ordinary Lagos to a whole rivers is a huge insult on the south.
Rivers is far bigger than Lagos in everything except traffic and crime.



#bantilosha

Even this one too wants to smell aso rock alongside tinubu. Awon oloriburuku gbogbo. None of you will witness 2023.

Really

How many people voted in last year election compared to that of Kano's?

=1/5 of kano voters

Wike go soon sell the state to Tinubu, his trying to gain more

Wike...rest, kwanu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkmOpma8ktY

FairlyUSEDpussy:
This man would have been better off being an HYPE MAN......

A

In Nigeria, nobody wins presidency if you didn’t win either Rivers and Lagos or Kano and Lagos together.

This is what 5% doesn’t understand..

2023 is almost a done deal. Regions that maters & that doesn’t matters have been scheduled out and that’s part of what makes it easy..

We shall see then

bobowaja:
Wike is trying to bargain. He will soon sell the state to Tinubu.

Abi Wike sef want make Tinubu come Rivers like e go Kano?

Ati Tinubu o
Ati Wike o
Ati Ganduje o.

Ori gbogbo yin ti daru