Wike sustains threat, fails to campaign for Atiku

• Published date: 13 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has continued to sustain the threat never to campaign for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar until the party leadership meets demands of the G-5 Governors.

Wike, in his numerous outings at the venues where he inaugurated and commissioned projects, had continued to appeal to Rivers people to vote for only the PDP governorship and legislative candidates.

The Governor said the PDP leaders at the grassroots especially the local government chairmen would reach the people later on the state's choice of Presidential Candidate.

On Friday, Wike while kicking off the construction of Abua-Emoh-Iyak-Ighom-Elok and Emoh-Egbolom Access Road that held at Okpeden Town Junction in Abua/Odual Local Government Area, asked the people to only vote for the PDP governorship and legislative candidates.

He asked them to 'guard their votes and deliver them all for candidates of the PDP contesting governorship, National Assembly and State House Of Assembly in Rivers State'.

He said: 'We also expect that you will also reciprocate what we are doing for you. We have built schools, which every other person may have done. But these roads, are very important to us.

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'And I believe that by the time you vote for us in the governorship, the House of Assembly, the Senate and the House of Representatives elections, obviously, my successor have no choice but to link you up with bridges over rivers that separate some of your communities, so that all of you will be together.'

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