…. reiterates stance on winning presidential election if given ticket as ex- Governor assures of giving maximum support
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has lamented the spate of insecurity in Kaduna State even with the presence of military formations noting there is no governance where lives and property are constantly threatened.
The governor who was at the party Secretariat in Kaduna to seek the support of delegates in the May 29 and 30 presidential convention of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP), decried the incessant attacks in the country blaming the All Progressives Congress ( APC) for the ugly trend.
He told the delegates that he was in the state on a mission to rescue Nigeria and to tell them that the PDP requires a very courageous leader as he who can win election in 2023.saying” am not here to tell you that am just a mere presidential aspirant. I want to win the election if you give me the ticket on 29 and 30 May,2022.
Governor Wike described Kaduna State as one of the most peaceful states in the past where people travel freely, but said the “state has lost its glory and it is because of the inefficiency of those in the government.”
The governor donated the sum of N200 million to victims of banditry and violent clashes in the state.
In his response, former Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Makarfi attributed the survival of the PDP to Wike.
Makarfi ,a one time National Caretaker Chairman of PDP recalled ” When the Court of Appeal judgement came out against us and we knew we were right, everybody was running away. Then Governor Wike called me and asked me,are you ready for this fight? I said yes. He said,we are going to reclaim our party, what do you need? How do we go about it? And the rest is history. Yes, many other people contributed in so many ways,but there is no single individual who contributed as he did for us to have the PDP that we have today.
” If it is an appointment, and I have the power to appoint,I would simply just appoint you and you will go home and rest,but it is a democracy,it is a convention, the delegates know who have been with them and will continue to be within theim, the party people know. And I am vigorously working for it.
