Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike
Eko Hot Blog reports that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has responded to a comment by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State on the crisis plaguing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Okowa, the PDP vice-presidential candidate, had on Friday said the party will win the presidential election with or without the support of the ‘G5’, a group of five PDP governors who are refusing to back the party’s presidential campaign.
The G5 governors, who include Wike, Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Samuel Ortom (Benue), have been seeking the resignation of Iyorchia Ayu as the PDP national chairman as a condition for supporting the party’s campaign.
However, Ayu has refused to resign and the PDP hierarchy, including Okowa and the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has backed the party’s national chairman.
“It is only the power of God that can help us to win. So, whether the G5 said that they would work with APC or any other party, we will win,” the Delta governor had said at a PDP rally in Delta.
On Saturday, Wike said those behind that statement should understand that God doesn’t give power to the “wicked and treacherous.”
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State
The Rivers governor, who spoke during the flag-off of the construction of the Ogbo-Ihugbodo road in Ahoada east LGA, also claimed that God will not give power to those who betray an agreement with their brothers.
“Don’t be treacherous in life because you want power. God will never give power to the wicked. Our hands are clean; we have not done anything wrong,” he said.
“All we are saying is, do things in a way all of us will have a sense of belonging; that all of us will believe that we are together. That is all we are saying. If saying so is wrong, then let it be to God. But we know that it is good as right takes, let left take also.
We are alive today; we are where we are because of God. Nobody can even breathe air if not God, not to talk of holding position. So, nobody can tell us that it is only God. We know that it is only God that gives power.
“But our prayer is that ‘God, don’t allow those who will sell off Nigeria to be in power’. Our prayer is ‘God, don’t allow anybody that people will have an agreement with, and in the next two minutes, the person will change’.
“Our prayer is that almighty God will not allow those who will betray their brothers when they have agreed with their brothers to do something. God, may you never allow such people.”
Wike’s mention of “betrayal” may not be unconnected with the southern governors agreement earlier in 2022 to only support presidential candidates of southern extraction.
After the agreement was reached, Atiku, a northerner, emerged as the PDP presidential candidate and Okowa, a southerner governor who was part of the agreement to zone the presidency to the south, accepted to be the party’s vice presidential nominee.
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