Why we won’t campaign for Atiku – Wike

By Baba Martins (Abuja) & Victor Edozie (Port Harcourt)  Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said he would not campaign for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar because he appointed enemies of the state to his campaign council. Addressing party stakeholders and supporters in Port Harcourt during the inauguration of the […]

By Baba Martins (Abuja) & Victor Edozie (Port Harcourt) 

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said he would not campaign for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar because he appointed enemies of the state to his campaign council.

Addressing party stakeholders and supporters in Port Harcourt during the inauguration of the Rivers State PDP campaign rally yesterday, Wike said the PDP candidate picked those he wanted to work with in Rivers, adding that “If he wants us to work with him, if he wants us to campaign for him, he would have talked to us.

Wike is at daggers-drawn with the PDP National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu and the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, sequel to his failure to clinch the presidential ticket or the vice presidential slot.

The Rivers governor said, “The presidential candidate has chosen enemies of the state as members of his campaign council, even me the governor of the state I do not have any input. If anybody did not accommodate the interest of Rivers State, we will also not have their interest at heart.”

In a public address where he vowed to fight whoever challenges his system, Wike said it does not matter how long someone has known another person, but the value he or she has added to the person.

“If anybody fights our system, we will fight the person back. Let me tell you what you don’t understand in politics. The moment you claim to be working with us and tomorrow, you shift to our enemy, we will use every might we have against you.

“We would even leave our enemy and finish you. So all of you who are going to Abuja to hold meetings with our enemies, I will finish you. You can’t come here get contracts, make money, then go to Abuja to work against us and think I will leave you? I will not.

“I’m not a born-again to that level. I’m a Christian, but not a born-again to that level. If you touch me or any of my people, you will see the war,” Wike said.