Wike: Why I want to be Nigeria’s President

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has called on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to support his presidential ambition, saying he is the best man to wrestle power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Wike stated this on Sunday during his visit to his Benue State counterpart, Samuel Ortom, in Makurdi, the state capital.

Govenor Wike said he was making his intention to contest the presidency known for the first time in Benue.

“To remove APC from power, I am the person who can tell them `enough is enough`.

“We must take this power and I am ready to take it for PDP and I know that God is with us that is why APC keeps failing every day.”

“I call on stakeholders to give me their mandate and not to sell their votes because I have the capacity to face this APC government,” the governor said.

He lamented that some founding fathers of the PDP left the party and still wanted to be recognised, stressing that they sold their shares as founding fathers after they left the party.

Wike was making reference to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who had dumped PDP on a number of times to other parties including ACN and APC.

Also, former Senate President Bukola Saraki and Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto are some of the PDP leaders who at one time dumped the party to pursue their ambitions and are now seeking the presidential ticket of the opposition party.

Wike added: “They can no longer retain their position of founding fathers.

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“I stood and worked for this party since 1998. I have nowhere to run to and that is why anything that happens to this party I take it personally.

“In 2015, those who ran away made us to lose the elections. Today, they are crying but some of us stood and said PDP will not die.

“Some people want to use Nigeria to buy back their personal businesses.

“They talk about private sector. Everybody is an employer of labour. Even in my house I have 50 people who feed from me.”

The governor said he had performed as a governor and carried his shoulders high anywhere he went, adding that he has the capacity to move the country forward.

Wike pledged that security would be his topmost priority if elected as the President of Nigeria.

Earlier, Governor Ortom lauded the contributions of Wike to Benue State particularly towards the displaced people in 2018.

He said that the people of the state would support his aspiration because he had sown seeds and he would reap.

Ortom said that he had been a vanguard on the Southern presidency, stressing that he stands on the southern presidency.

The Star