Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, lashed out on Monday at former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who led leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on a protest at the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to protest the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.
Wike, speaking at the inauguration of the Chokocho-Igbodo Road in Rivers State’s Etche Local Government Area, warned the party’s leadership about its insistence on northerners retaining the presidential ticket and the party’s national chairmanship seat.
“While other people are demonstrating, I am commissioning projects. I have not gone to do demonstration; my own is to commission projects and make my people happy,” Wike said.
The Rivers governor also praised the people for electing a southern president in the recent elections.
According to him, Section 7(3)(c) of the PDP constitution recognized zoning and rotational presidency, but the party’s leadership violated the party’s regulations.
“I owe nobody any apology at all. I am one of the apostles, one of those who stood firm that power must rotate to the South. This is for equity, this is for fairness and this is for justice.
“Whether you voted for Labour, I have no problem with you. Whether you voted for APC, I have no problem with you. That is what we have argued for: that the north has had it for eight years. Therefore the south must be there for eight years,” he said.
