Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has made a jibe at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate for the protest they staged on Monday at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
PDP leaders, including Iyorcha Ayu, Atiku, governors, and members marched to the INEC headquarters to protest against the victory of Bola Tinubu as the president-elect of the February 25 election.
But Wike who leads a G-5, a group of five governors who opposed Abubakar’s presidential bid was commissioning Chokocho-Igbodo road in the Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State when the protest was ongoing.
“While other people are demonstrating, I am commissioning projects. I have not gone to do demonstration; my own is to commission projects and make my people happy,” he said.
He commended the people for voting for a southern president in the election, quoting section 7(3)(c) of the PDP constitution that recognises zoning and rotational presidency.
Wike said the leadership of the party contravened the provisions of the party’s regulations.
“Whether you voted for Labour, I have no problem with you. Whether you voted for APC, I have no problem with you. That is what we have argued for: that the north has had it for eight years. Therefore the south must be there for eight years,” he said.
