Nwosu's resignation vindicates G-5, says Wike

• Published date: 14 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has said that the recent resignation of former Minister of Health and member of Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Prof. Alphonsus Nwosu from the party, has vindicated the demand of the G-5 for equity, fairness and justice.

The Governor warned that if the party remained adamant and failed to zone the national chairmanship position to the South, it shoul be willing to face a grave repercussion.

Wike spoke when stakeholders of Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area paid a solidarity visit to him at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Saturday.

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The Governor said that he had continued to challenge the party on the equality of everybody insisting that nobody should be treated as a second class citizen.

He said: 'I have continued to challenge them. What is the problem? What are we fighting for? What I said and will continue to say is that all of us are from this country. Nobody is a second class citizen.

'We are agreed that this is how our party will be. Recently Prof. A.B.C Nwosu resigned from the party saying that his conscience will not allow him, that the constitution of the party is clear, if you take this, these other people will take that. Why now are we saying that we won't do it again?

'What the people are saying is look, you have taken this, let these people take that and you are saying you will take all. If you take all, you will also face the repercussions.'

The Governor declared that anybody fighting the state would surely be defeated at the poll.

He maintained that God had blessed the state so much that he would not allow its adversaries to become victorious because the protective wall still remained difficult to penetrate.

Wike stressed that even if Rivers loved peace, it could not be intimidated and made to succumb to...