Nyesom Wike, Rivers governor, says he never promised to
announce his preferred presidential candidate on live television.
The Rivers governor had, in December 2022, said he would
start campaigning for a presidential candidate by January.
“From January next year, I will campaign to my people who they
will vote for. So, all of you who have been suspects and have been saying all
kinds of things and abusing me, wait. January has come,” he had said.
While speaking on Wednesday during a Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) campaign in Port Harcourt, Wike said people of the state know who
to support for the presidential election.
“I never told anybody
one day, I will bring a camera and announce to you this is who will go. I said
I will tell Rivers people the candidate they will support,” he said.
“I did not tell you the method of saying it. I did not tell
you I will bring live coverage and say it. But Rivers people know.”
Since the PDP presidential primary, there has been a crisis
in the party over calls for Iyorchia Ayu to step down from his position as
national chairperson of the party.
The calls, championed by Wike and his allies, are based on
the grounds that the PDP presidential candidate and national chairperson cannot
be from the same region.
Amid the crisis, some PDP stakeholders, including five PDP
governors — Wike, Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Samuel Ortom of Benue, Okezie Ikpeazu of
Abia, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu — formed the Integrity Group, dubbed G5.
The governors have also exempted themselves from the
campaign of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP, ahead of the
general election.
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