Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide said Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State claimed he was only aware of presidency rotation to the South, and that no one informed him about the “south-east” project to win the number one seat in 2023.
Its Publicity Secretary, Dr. Alex Ogbonnia stated this yesterday, in Enugu, while giving an account of the meeting with Wike in Port Harcourt, on Thursday.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo had confronted Wike at the meeting over his alleged role against Obi during the presidential election.
Defending himself, the Rivers State Governor explained that the Southern Governors Forum first met at Asaba, Delta State and agreed that power must shift to the South after President Muhammadu Buhari.
Wike explained also that the governors later met in Enugu in September 2021 to reaffirm their position for power to shift to the South. The governor stated that throughout the meetings, “the issue of the presidency to the South-East was never on the table”.
The Governor also explained that throughout his political adventure, he tried as much as possible to maintain the position of the Southern governors. He expressed disgust that during the PDP presidential primary election, several well-known people of the Southeast betrayed him and sabotaged the Southern interest by voting for a candidate from the northern parts.
He added that his unalloyed commitment to the South motivated him “to provide logistics for Obi when he was in Rivers for the presidential campaign’’.
Wike noted that conversely, he refused to provide even a campaign ground for the presidential candidate of his own Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.
The Governor further explained that “some mischief makers were using some doctored and false audio and visual materials on the internet to dent Wike’s image, saying, “What is circulating in the social media is the handiwork of Wike adversaries”.
