Barely three days to the presidential election, Uche
Secondus, former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has
revealed that his party has gone to the grassroots of Rivers State as Governor
Nyesom Wike refused to support the presidential ambition of Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar.
Secondus spoke while fielding questions on Arise
Television’s Morning Show programme on Wednesday.
According to him, no amount of Wike’s magic and intimidation
of trying to swing the votes of Rivers people to the presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, will work.
Seconus said, “This is very new in our state, so it has not
been very easy. What we have done in the past few months when we witnessed that
the Governor (Wike) and his team have changed from our presidential candidate
even though he made a firm promise that he would support but later backed out of
the support giving all forms of flimsy reasons.
“That has not gone down well to the grassroots. Recall that
I was also a state chairman, and I believe that the Rivers people from 1999
till date have been voting for the PDP. What we have done so far in the state
is to make sure that we go down to the grassroots to the people who are going
to vote on that day because we are not going to depend on anybody’s ego or what
anybody likes but the truth of the matter is that before even the political
dispensation.
“Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has already been known. Why we watch
the governor over and over attacking our presidential candidate, but the people
themselves are convinced that on that day they will vote for Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar and PDP.
“So nobody is going to do any magic no matter the amount of
intimidation and trying to swing the votes to the APC candidate. It would not
work. The difference is very clear that you can see Bola Ahmed Tinubu, you can
see clearly with our eyes open Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who has done so much for
the Rivers people, what has Bola Tinubu done for the Rivers people.
“So those are the issues and they are very critical and they
are in the minds of Rivers people and Nigerians also.”
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