2023: Rivers will determine Buhari's successor, Wike finally declares
- Governor Nyesom Wike has said that nobody can become president in 2023 without Rivers' votes
- Wike stated that the south-south state would determine President Buhari's successor
- According to him, the PDP taught the APC a bitter lesson in Rivers state in 2019
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Nyesom Wike, the Rivers state governor, has said anybody jostling to be president in 2023 would need to secure votes in Rivers and combine with either Kano or Lagos to emerge victorious.
The Nation reports that he said such a pivotal position established the importance of Rivers in the political scheme of the country, adding that nobody would be allowed to undermine it.
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Legit.ng gathered that Wike, in a statement by his special assistant on media, Kelvin Ebiri, spoke at the grand finale of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) local government election campaign at Ulakwo in Etche local government area on Thursday, April 15.
He said:
“I keep telling the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that no state has given more votes to the party than Rivers. And it is only in Rivers, in the whole of south-south, that the All Progressives Congress (APC) didn’t get 25% votes in the 2019 general election. We thought them a lesson."
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that Wike said that no individual can unilaterally decide who would succeed him and where the governorship ticket would be zoned to in 2023.
It was reported that he said stakeholders of the PDP in the state would meet at the appropriate time and decide his successor.
Wike insisted that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government had failed Nigerians by not keeping to its social contract with the people of the country.
In a related report, prominent members of the PDP including governors and senators visited Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara state in a bid to stop his reported moves to return to the ruling APC.
The six PDP governors and other chieftains of the party met with Governor Matawalle in Gusau, the state capital, on Wednesday, April 7.
Source: Legit.ng
