Steer Clear From Rivers Crisis, Wike Threatens PDP Governors•••Vows To Remain In Party
•By Our Reporter
PORT HARCOURT – The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike has vowed to remain in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP despite the current political crisis bedeviling the party.
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Wike made the declaration in Port Harcourt during the controversial Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party Congress, which held under tight security at the PDP state secretariat on Saturday despite conflicting orders surrounding it.
The FCT Minister, also used the medium to encourage his supporters in the state to remain steadfast in the party amid the current crisis.
This is as the state Governor Sir Siminalayi Fubara and the FCT Minister , Nyesom Wike have since been at loggerheads over who controls the state’s political structure.
Speaking at the Congress, Wike said, “I assured you, yes we’ve done our own part by electing a government in the state, of the government said it does not want us, will you kill yourself? Will you run away from the party you built? We are the party members, and we have taken over our party. The way we did it, how we did it in 2023, the same God will allow us, will support us, and will be with us in 2027.
“Let nobody be intimidated, I know how it is when you have worked hard and at the end of the day you are pushed away, I know how bad it feels, but again, it’s not every business you enter into that you get profit, so see this one as one of those but that you invest in and you lost, but that will not make you not to continue to work hard in order to invest in future and make your profit.
“So be strong, they said that we are finished, they are finished, anywhere you see them, say they are finished and let me assure all of you, not one will leave, anybody will take away the structure of PDP from us, not one w leave.”
Wike PDP governors supporting Governor Fubara in the ongoing political tussle in the state to steer clear Rivers politics of face crisis in their various states at his behest.
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“Let me tell people, I hear that some governors who say they will take away the structure and give back to somebody, I put it to you governors because I will put fire in their states.
“When God has given you peace, you say you don’t want peace, then whatever you see, you take. I don’t understand, simply because I hear they got money from these signature bonus and their heads are getting big, that they will put hand in my own state. Prepare because I have the capacity to also do the same thing in your own state.
“Even if you are from Bauchi, I don’t give a damn, whichever state you come from, as far as I know that you are trying to put yourself in Rivers State, your hand will get burnt and you will never sleep in your state, you will never do governance again, you will see political crisis, as far as PDP is concerned.
He added, “So I’ve told them, now you have started, when I will start, don’t say I’m the one that destroyed PDP, you are the one that is trying to destroy PDP.
“Allow Rivers State to conduct the affairs of the party, we are aware of these unstable characters, we know that they are joining APP, let them wait during the time, they should face us in the election, don’t bother about our abuses, we have thick skin, we don’t even know what abuse is, so don’t say anybody is abusing me, of I’m nothing, they will not abuse me.
“They thought, we will come to them and start begging, are we begging? We are not begging, let them go and see what is happening in Abuja, so they know, if we are talking about politics in Nigeria, we are more relevant than them. Today, if I say I will leave for another party, it will be a tsunami.”
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Our correspondent reports that Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu, the members of the State executive Council and the 23 local government caretaker committee members and other loyalists of the governor, boycotted the exercise.
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