Says Ive capacity to remove APC
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that he has the capacity to win the 2023 presidential election for the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP).
Wike made the declaration during a consultative meeting with stakeholders of the Benue chapter of the PDP at the Government House in Makurdi, Benue State, yesterday.
The governor, who intimated the stakeholders about his intention to run for the presidency, solicited for Benue PDP votes in the coming national delegates convention of the party, even as he stressed on zoning.
To remove APC from power, Im the person who can tell them enough is enough. We must take this power and Im ready to take it for PDP. God is with us thats why APC keeps failing every day.
Im declaring it (presidential ambition) for the first time in Benue. Im going to run for election, Wike said.
He warned stakeholders not to sell their votes, but give them to him, adding that some of the PDP presidential aspirants were only after the power in order for personal gains.
Wike also accused those who once left the party and came back to seek power of being the reason the party lost the election in 2015, noting that those founding fathers who ran away from the party and still wanted to be recognised have lost their shares.
According to him, I have performed as a governor and can carry my shoulders high anywhere. I have the capacity to face this evil government, give me the mandate. I will speak the truth to power and nothing but the truth. I have the capacity to move this country forward.
Earlier, Governor Samuel Ortom, who hosted Wike prayed that God will grant him his desire to rule the country.
He recalled that his Rivers counterpart had never turned his back on Benue, especially in caring for the teeming displaced people occasioned by herders invasions in some parts of the State.
