Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, stated on Monday that the state has not yet made a decision about the 2016 presidential election.
Despite the fact that the state had not yet decided how to proceed with the presidential election, he predicted that the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate for governor, as well as all House of Representatives, the Senate, and the State House of Assembly, would triumph in the general elections of 2023.
At the installation of the 319 Ward and 32 Constituency Liaison Officers on Monday at Government House in Port Harcourt, Wike gave a speech.
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This information was provided to journalists in a statement made by Kelvin Ebiri, Governor Wike’s special assistant for media.
“PDP will win our state. I am not hiding it as far as the governorship, House of Reps, Senate and State Assembly are concerned. The other one (presidency), we have not decided until the right thing is done,” the Rivers governor said.
In addition, Wike attacked Dr. Abiye Sekibo, the former minister of transportation, claiming that Sekibo lacks the authority to speak on behalf of the government.
The Peoples’ Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State is directed by Dr. Sekibo.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Sekibo, a former governor of the state who is no longer recognized, Sir Celestine Omehia, Rt. Hon. Austin Opara, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Senator Lee Maeba, a former senator who represented the Rivers South-East district, have all lost favor because they sided with Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, for the 2023 election.
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Sekibo, according to Wike, is a self-centered politician who failed to provide democratic dividends of any type to the state while he was a minister and to his birthplace of Okrika local government area.
“I watched a video when one Dr. Abiye Sekibo, while he was addressing people in his house yesterday (Sunday), said he is the director of Atiku’s Supporters in Rivers.
“I have no problem about that. But he does not have the capacity to speak on behalf of Rivers State.
“In that video, he said that Rivers State has been having a close relationship with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and that Rivers State has always benefitted from Atiku Abubakar.
“I want to correct one impression, Dr. Abiye Sekibo has a personal relationship with Alhaji Atiku, not Rivers State.
“Dr. Abiye Sekibo was Minister of Transport when Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was the Vice president of Nigeria. Can you people mention one project in Okrika, I don’t even want to talk about Rivers State, in Ogu/Bolo, one project that he brought down to Rivers State. Is there anyone?”
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Wike said leadership was not about personal aggrandizement, but serving the people, protecting their interests while building up others as competent successors.
He stated that people like Dr. Sekibo number among those who are never satisfied with the fortunes they have enjoyed in life, otherwise, he should have been silent in the public sphere for his failure in leadership.
“I was a minister, junior minister in that matter. But I am proud to say anywhere I go in this state (Rivers), I brought a dividend of democracy to Rivers.
“As a junior minister, I brought the Oil and Gas Polytechnic to Rivers State that is sited in Bonny. There was no Faculty of Law at the University of Port Harcourt since the creation of that institution, but I brought it.
“As a minister, I made sure Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic and the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, even if they are state institutions, I made sure they got a grant of N500M each,” Wike stated.
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Wike also mentioned the several educational initiatives he has undertaken at the elementary to secondary school levels that show what true leadership should be.
He emphasized that although he, as Chief of Staff, had completed various road improvements in Rumuepirikom, Dr. Sekibo, as Secretary to the Rivers State government, had not carried out any notable projects in Okrika.
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