Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says if zoning the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential ticket to the North will make the party to win the 2023 general election, he will support the decision.
Wike also ruled out the possibility of him supporting the All Progressives Congress, APC even if the party’s presidential candidate Goodluck Jonathan.
He shared this view during an interview with BBC Pigin at the Government House, Port Harcourt.
In a press statement signed by Kelvin Ebiri , his special assistant on media, Wike was quoted as explaining that why the PDP has not taken a final decision on whether its Presidential candidate for the 2023 general election should be from the North or South of the country is because stakeholders are still strategizing on the best options that will guarantee the party’s victory in the polls.
Governor Wike stated that PDP is keen to takeover the realm of power in 2023 and is not in a hurry to give the ruling All Progressives Congress a glimpse of its strategy to wrest power from it in the next general election.
“I am from Southern part of Nigeria. I will be happy if power returns to the South, but if PDP will win the 2023 Presidential election by zoning the presidential ticket to the North, I will not be opposed to it”.
The governor while reacting to question on whether he will support former President Goodluck Jonathan if the APC picks him as its presidential candidate, declared that it was not in his nature to engage in anti-party activity.
“If President Jonathan is given the All Progressives Congress presidential ticket, he knows that I will not support him. I will not engage in anti-party. Even if he is from the South, I will not endorse him. What is paramount is my party’s interest.”
Governor Wike affirmed that if President Jonathan secures PDP presidential ticket, Rivers State will overwhelmingly support him.
The governor declared nothing will make him defect from the PDP to the APC which he described as cancerous political party that is devoid of any solution to the prevailing security and economic challenges facing the Nigerian State.
According to him, the APC has ruined the Nigerian economy and only PDP can pull Nigeria out of the brink of socio- economic collapse.
Governor Wike revealed that the decision concerning his political future will be taken by July 2022 when he must have completed all the projects started by his administration.
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