Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, says he will announce his preferred presidential candidate in January 2023.

Wike said this while commissioning a flyover at Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on Thursday.

The governor stated that he will also campaign for his adopted candidate across the country.

“From January next year, I will campaign to my people whom they will vote for.

“So, all of you who have been in suspense, who have been saying all kinds of things, abusing me, wait. January is here.

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“Not only will I tell them whom to vote, I will move from state to state and why they should vote for the person, nothing will happen,” Governor Wike, who lost the presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in May, said.

Since Atiku emerged as the party’s presidential candidate, Wike and his allies, Governors Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Samuel Ortom (Benue), and Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), known as G-5 or the Integrity Group, have been calling for the resignation of the PDP National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, as a condition for them to campaign for the former Vice President ahead of the 2023 general election.

The aggrieved governors insisted that it is unfair for the main opposition party to have the national chairman and presidential candidate from the northern region of the country, saying Ayu should resign his position for justice, equity, and fairness in the PDP.

The Star