Wike Confident of Victory For His Preferred Presidential Candidate
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has expressed confidence that whoever he adopts as candidate will be victorious at the February 25 presidential poll.
The governor said the insults being hurled at him would not make him to change his mind on working for his yet-to-named preferred presidential candidate.
Wike and the other G-5 governors – Seyi Makinde (Oyo); Ikpeazu Okezie (Abia); Ifeayi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) and Samuel Ortom (Benue) – have vowed not to back the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, at the poll.
The withdrawal of support for their party’s standard bearer was occasioned by the refusal of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu to step down as the opposition party’s National Chairman.
He described his abusers as those who cannot mobilise 25 votes in their constituencies for any candidate.
He said he would concentrate on mobilising support for his candidate rather than join issues with his detractors, who had lost focus.
Wike wondered why people abandoned much political work waiting for them to delight themselves in abusing leaders of the party.
He said such behaviour would only attract dire political consequences because they would end up in bitter tears when the reality of their political loss would stare them in the face eventually.
The governor said: “If anybody likes, say what you want to say that I am working for so and so person, it’s their business, say that I am not working for so and so person, it’s their business.
“That will not make me change my mind where we are heading to. Do you understand me? So, if they like, they can make speculation. After all, that is why the word, speculation is there.
Source: thenationonlineng.net
