Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says Bola Tinubu,
presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), turned down an
offer to betray President Muhammadu Buhari in the build-up to the 2019
elections.
Wike spoke on Wednesday when he hosted Tinubu at the
government house in Port Harcourt, capital city of Rivers.
The governor said he paid Tinubu a visit to ask him to
consider throwing his weight behind former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar or
ex-Senate President Bukola Saraki.
“I came to your house in Bourdillon. I came and said to you,
sir, to ‘look at the way the country is moving; there is no way we can allow
the current president to continue in 2019’,” Wike said.
“You now asked me,
‘okay, what are the alternatives?’ I said ‘sir, we have Atiku, we have
Tambuwal, we have Bukola’. You laughed. You said, ‘look, I will remain with
Buhari. If these are your alternatives, I will remain with Buhari’.”
Citing the rift he had with former President Olusegun
Obasanjo, Wike said Tinubu possesses “character and courage” which are virtues
required of any leader.
The Rivers governor also expressed dismay at the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN) “refusal” to obey a ruling of the supreme court which
temporarily restrained the implementation of the February 10 deadline for the
use of old naira notes.
“How can you people
be in government at this time, and the governor of the central bank is
disrespecting the supreme court?” he asked.
“Where has it happened in any democracy? Governor of the
central bank thinking of whether to obey supreme court order? Where has it
happened?”
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