The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that the state would no longer sacrifice for anybody who can’t die for its people.
According to him, Rivers would no longer work for anybody, who refuses to embrace justice, fairness and equity.
OsunDaily News reports that the governor, who reiterated his stand to only support the Rivers state governorship candidate, National Assembly and House of Assembly candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023, said all his candidates in the state would win their elections.
Wike at the state banquet organised on Friday night in honour of the G5 Governors who were in the state to support the Rivers 2023 campaign flag-off slated for today said “I am in support of PDP in Rivers State until you meet us. The governorship, the Senatorial, House of Representatives and Assembly I will fully fight for them to win elections.
“Here, I will not support anybody who doesn’t like Rivers State. I will not support anybody who doesn’t want equity, fairness and justice. If you want Rivers State to support you, come and say you believe in equity and justice.
“This state has sacrificed for the party and you must sacrifice for Rivers State. If you don’t sacrifice for Rivers, Rivers will no longer sacrifice for you. Rivers State will not die for anybody who doesn’t want to die for us.
“Let the world and Nigeria hear. This state will not continue to sacrifice for anybody. You must sacrifice for this state. We have suffered enough. We have worked for this party and we will not, it doesn’t matter what people will say. Death will come when it will come.
“But you conspired to think that Rivers State will be no state and I tell you, no way. Just like all of them here, you have not won the election and you want to jail the Benue governor. You have not won the election and you want to jail the Enugu governor. You have not won the election and you want to jail the Oyo governor. God will not allow you.
“Because they stand for the truth and say they will support Wike, therefore all of them will come down. They will never come down. They cannot be governors again. Only Seyi will still be governor. He has worked for Oyo State and you cannot threaten him.
“What have we done? We say by our party’s constitution, President should go here and the chairman should go here. But you say no you will take everything, we also say no we won’t allow that. History will be on our side that we are saying the truth and nothing but the truth.”
Speaking about the release of the money owed to some Niger Delta States of Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Delta and Bayelsa, President Muhammadu Buhari Wike asked the states that received the money to account for it.
The governor picked on a Delta state senatorial candidate, Ned Nwoko, who had asked him to account for what he did with the money saying “I thanked President Buhari and people had been sending me messages saying why did I say that. But I say why won’t I say that? I am not an apostle of Buhari. Most of you go to the villa at night. But I haven’t gone. The truth of the matter is that Buhari released monies that were not paid to us since 1999.
“The money was paid to some States in the Niger Delta. Let every state come and account for the money. I as Rivers governor can account for it.
“There is one man who married 20 wives and because we say no you can’t extort States of over $400million, one man. He said he did work. Which work? But we say we won’t allow him to take that money.
“He said I should tell Rivers what I did with the money. Today, part of what I did with the money is the Law school. Yesterday,.part of what I did with the money is a ninth flyover, the tenth flyover. Let him also tell his boss to tell his people what he did with the money.”
Present at the Banquet was the G5 governors comprising Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Samuel Ortom (Benue) as well as other PDP chieftains.
