Wike Mocks PDP, Atiku Over Election Loss Protest In Abuja

Governor Nyesom Wike has mocked his party the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over their protest march against the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election saying that the march would have been unnecessary if the party adhered to its principle of zoning.

The governor said that the party’s loss of the presidential election was a consequence of the presidential candidate ignoring the warnings of the G5 governors on the need to promote equity in the party.

Speaking on Monday at Okomoko Community Field while inaugurating the Chokocho-Igbodo Road in Etche Local Government Area, governor Wike said it is now settled that the presidency has returned to the south because the north is completing its 8 years at the presidency.

Against the background of the protest in Abuja against the result led by Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, Governor Wike stated that while others are demonstrating against the outcome of the presidential elections, he was in Rivers inaugurating projects and satisfying the development needs of the people.

“Our constitution says in section 7: 3c that there shall be rotation of public offices; of appointive and elective. You took the chairmanship of the party. You took the presidential candidate slot of the party and we came to you, saying this is against the spirit of our constitution.

“Give us back the chairmanship, you said no, that you must have it all because you have won. I said be careful then, and nobody wants to remember all those things when we were shouting.”

The governor explained that there was no time he ever criticised either the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi or the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu during the campaigns.

Governor Wike said he rather campaigned, unapologetically, to true lovers of Nigeria to vote for a southern presidential candidate in the spirit of equity, fairness and justice.

“That is what we have argued for, that the north has had it for 8years, therefore the south should have it for 8 years. So, I am not here to persecute anybody.

“As far as I am concerned, anybody from the south is where I stand. That is what we agreed as integrity group that we must make sure that the south emerges as the next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

Speaking further, governor insisted that he is one of the apostles who stood firm that power must rotate and it was based on the conviction of equity, fairness and justice.

He told Etche people that he has no problem with anybody who had either voted for the Labour Party or the APC because the outcome of the presidential election is that Nigeria has a southerner elected as the next president.

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