Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike has told the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he is not a pushover when it comes to politics.
Wike has been ruffling feathers with presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, and the party leadership since he lost the primary ticket, and was not picked as running mate.
All efforts by Atiku and other party leaders to talk Wike into an agreement has hit brick wall.
Speaking on Wednesday at the unveiling of the Emohua campus of Rivers State University, Wike said the PDP needs performing governors like him to get the needed votes for the party to win the presidency in the 2023 elections.
“That is why I am telling the people there, ‘look, it cannot work; you can’t take everything. If you take everything, it will purge you. So, better do the right thing now’,” he said.
“Don’t sit there and think that you can muzzle me and you can do everything; you can manipulate anything. You can think you have the number to make sure you take everything, but the time is coming when you will account for it.
“If any PDP state is not doing well, don’t think you will be voted for because APC is not doing well. If in PDP state, for example, if in Rivers state, we didn’t do well, then you’ll say because APC did not do well at the national level, then the people will vote for us.
“They’ll tell you ‘PDP, you didn’t do well in Rivers state’. People don’t understand that. And that is why the party should respect us and know that we are the ones campaigning for the party, because we have what to use to campaign.”
Also speaking at the event, Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo, said he and his colleagues will continue to fight for their “space” in the party.
“Even the fight that we lost, we did not lose with our heads bowed. We stood for the truth and for what is good for the country,” he said.
“We will continue to fight for our space within the PDP. We will fight for what is good for our people.”
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