Atiku In Trouble As Wike Drops Fresh Bombshell, Says "When We Are Talking of Vote Buying, This Is Vote Buying"

Atiku In Trouble As Wike Drops Fresh Bombshell, Says "When We Are Talking of Vote Buying, This Is Vote Buying"

  • Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has redefined what should be tagged as vote buying ahead of the 2023 election
  • Wike said the projects he has been commissioning in the state are the real vote buying and not just giving money to some people
  • The governor made the assertion while sending a veiled message to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP

Ahoada, Rivers - Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers state, has said that the more he commissions projects, the more he buys votes from the people of the state.

The governor said this, in a video, during the commissioning of the dualization of the Ahoada-Omoku Dual Carriage in the state on Wednesday, December 21.

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Wike redefines vote buying, said commissioning projects in real vote buying Photo Credit: Nyesom Wike, Atiku Abubakar
Source: Twitter

Wike asked the people of the state to compare his administration with others in the past and boasted that none of them can compete with him.

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In a veiled message to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP, Wike said he has been busy commissioning projects while others are busy campaigning.

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He maintained that he is doing the best of the political campaigns by commissioning projects, which is a better vote buying.

He said:

"While others are busy campaigning, we are busy inaugurating projects. When we are talking about vote buying, this is vote buying. We are using the work for the people to support us, is it not? Nobody should bother themselves that someone will carry anybody, see our own year. We have used Ahoada dualization."

See the video below:

Wike added that his administration has used all the project works in the state to buy votes from the people and the opposition can no longer buy them

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The governor then called on a prominent Bishop and handed him a car key, saying that he has bought cars for other bishops in the state except him.

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Legit.ng earlier reported that Uwaoma Olawengwa, the commissioner for industry in Abia state, has resigned from her position in the state while announcing a defection from the PDP to APGA.

Olawengwa, while speaking with journalists in Umuahia, said that her reason to leave the government house was private and personal.

Okezie Ikpeazu, the governor of Abia state, is one of the key allies of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state and stands with him amid the PDP crisis.

Source: Legit.ng

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with 7 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Google's Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop. He previously worked as an Editor with OperaNews. Legit’s Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023). Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng