A group known as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders
says the claim by Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, that Atiku Abubakar,
presidential candidate of the party, excluded him while forming the campaign
council is false.
Wike had alleged that Abubakar selected people from Rivers
as members of the PDP presidential campaign council without any input from him.
In a statement on Monday, Tai Oyekan, coordinator of the
group, alleged that Wike was contacted by the party and Abubakar but he refused
to participate in the process.
“Whereas all state governors made nominations into the
council, it was only in Rivers State that the governor refused to forward his
nominations into the council,” the statement reads.
“It was therefore
upon the refusal of the governor that the PDP and its presidential candidate
went ahead by their own discretion to make nominations into the council.
“It is public knowledge that Governor Wike has gone amok
with the party since his failure to emerge as presidential candidate of the
party and has stated, publicly also, that he will not cooperate with the party
in our presidential campaign.
“Governor Wike can be likened to a prodigal son who took his
inheritance in annoyance. But we are hopeful that the party, as father to all,
will have the rectitude to accept Governor Wike back as a prodigal son whenever
he returns in penitence.
“But before then, we
wish to admonish Governor Wike that for the purpose of posterity, he should
desist from telling lies against the PDP and leaders of the party. Nigeria
operates a democratic politics and that means that Governor Wike has the rights
of participation or otherwise. Be that as it may, however, he alone does not
approximate Rivers state.
“There are respected leaders who have made their marks in
life and politics and are indigenes of Rivers.
“We consider it inglorious on the part of the governor that
he would describe such people as ‘enemies of Rivers State’ only because they
refuse to be a party of his solo-travel to political obscurity.”
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