Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has declared that some Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors almost thwarted the desire for a southern Nigerian to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.
Wike explained that he contested the PDP presidential primary last year because of his firm belief that the south should produce President Buhari’s successor.
He made the assertion during the Rivers State student community town hall interactive session at the Obi Wali International Conference Centre, Port Harcourt.
The town hall interactive session was organised by PDP Rivers State campaign council, directorate of mobilisation, sub-directorate on student mobilisation.
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Governor Wike, while addressing the students said he did not have problem with any of them who voted for any of the two major presidential candidates from the south in the just concluded election.
According to him, what mattered most was that presidential power would be shifting from the north to the south of Nigeria at the end of President Buhari’s tenure.
He explained that while the All Progressives Congress, APC, governors adhered to the resolutions reached by southern Nigeria governors in Asaba, Lagos and Enugu respectively, their PDP counterparts acted otherwise.
“We agreed in Southern Nigeria, all of us as governors, we agreed, we said it doesn’t matter the party you belong to, whether you are in no party, whether you are in a party, whether you are in any organisation, power must come to the south. But we in PDP betrayed ourselves.”
Governor Wike, who used the interactive session to acquaint the students with his numerous developmental achievements, urged them to support the PDP governorship candidate, Sir Siminialayi Fubara in Saturday’s election in order for the state to consolidate on the gains of his administration.
