Wike: Obi’s camp lobbied me so much before 2023 polls -- they can't deny it Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), declares the camp of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, is attacking him.
Wike uttered on Saturday during a private luncheon with stakeholders in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital.
The luncheon was organised by Wike in honour of the Martin Amaewhule-led faction of the Rivers house of assembly.
During the event, the FCT minister aimed tenement at his political opponents.
The former Rivers governor stated he dismissed to endorse Obi for the 2023 presidential election despite being pressured “so much” for support.
He adjunct that some persons in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who require the party’s presidential ticket in 2027, are also ganging up against him.
Wike bragged that his political enemies would not develop victorious.
“Let me inform you what is going on. I have no penitence at all for championing President Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. I have no penitence about it,” he said.
“All these things you are seeing… there is Atiku’s group, Peter Obi’s group and some few governors of the PDP who believe I’m a problem to them. I will continue to be a problem to them.
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“Atiku’s group believes that I and my team stopped them from becoming president. What we stopped was injustice. All we called for was equity and fairness.
“Obi’s group — they pressured me so much. They can’t contradict it. I said, ‘look, this won’t fly. Rivers state will not go to where we will not… it won’t fly’. There is also a gang-up. They are attacking us back. They are attacking themselves.
“There is another gang-up within the PDP who demands to be president and they say, ‘look if we don’t do anything now we have a problem’. I can assure you they will have a problem.
“There is another APC — very prominent. All these people combined, they will lose.”
In the build-up to the 2023 presidential election, Wike dismissed to advocate the ambition of PDP’s Atiku Abubakar and LP’s Obi and instead advocated Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) standard bearer.
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Published 10/20/2024