Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has listed failure to address the grievances of the aggrieved G-5 governors by the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as one of the causative factors of the party’s recent election loss.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned the governor, who said this at Okomoko Community Field while inaugurating the Chokocho-Igbodo Road in Etche Local Government on Monday, added that what had befallen PDP was avoidable if the national leadership of the party had taken steps to respect principle of equity, fairness and justice.
He added that matters had since been settled since presidency has returned to the south after the north had been in control of the Federal Government for 8 years .
‘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 complaining’ he said.
The governor added that while others were demonstrating against the presidential election outcome, he was in Rivers state inaugurating projects and satisfying the needs of the people.
He also noted that there was no time he ever criticized either the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi or the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at campaign rallies adding that he had 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 8 years, 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 was what we agreed to do as integrity group that we must make sure that someone from the south emerges as the next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’ he added.
The governor said he had called for ‘power shift’ because of his conviction that there should be equity, fairness and justice.
He told Etche people that he had no problem with anybody who had either voted for the Labour Party or the APC because the presidential election had eventually produced a southerner as president-elect- Team@orientactualmags.com
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