IgbereTV reports that Governor, Nyesom Wike of Rivers State yesterday said that he didn’t plot against the Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki.
Wike made this known while speaking in an interview with Arise Television News Channel. Wike said that all he did was to carry everyone in PDP Edo State who have been making sacrifices for the party when Obaseki was in APC and that such people must be heard and persuaded about Obaseki’s entry into the party so that everybody would work together for the interest of the party.
He maintained that but for his insistence on following due process and carrying everyone along, Obaseki would not have emerged as the party’s candidate in Edo.
“Carrying people along does not mean giving money. That is the mistake people make. It means listening to them, appealing to them and making them recognise the greater interest of the party”, he said.
Wike also said that if not said that if the issues were not amicably resolved, that multiple lawsuits would have been flying around which would have distracted the governor in his campaign plans.
The governor said that members of the PDP must be united in ordee to take back Edo State.
The governor said he was happy with the circumstances that brought Obaseki to the PDP. “I am happy that APC is in crisis. It is not my business to help APC to be united. Remember that we also had our own crisis under Ali Modu Sheriff and APC jubilated about it then. It is my prayer that they should continue to be in crisis. We have taken another state. Unfortunately, APC isn’t really a political party. They came together just to take over power. I want my party to be in power and therefore, I cannot be praying for APC not to have crisis. I hope they continue to make mistakes everyday and my party will continue to grow.”
He however, said that it was wrong to blame him for APC’s crisis in Rivers State saying that he has nothing to do with it.
He said he should not be blamed about the crisis in APC. He said the APC is having crisis because members of the party are not united.
