Rivers State is yet to decide which candidate to support for next year’s presidential election, according to Governor Nyesom Wike.
The governor, who has been in heated disagreement with the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu, has been leading a group that insists on the party having the topmost position of the party zoned to the south since the presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is from the north, just as Ayu.
At the inauguration of 319 ward and 32 constituency liaison officers in Government House, Port Harcourt on Monday, Wike however said that the state would support the PDP candidate in other elections — governorship, Senate, the House of Representatives, and House of Assembly.
“PDP will win our state. I am not hiding it as far as the governorship, House of Representatives, Senate and State Assembly are concerned. The other one we have not decided until the right thing is done”, he said.
The Governor also berated a former Minister of Transport, Dr Abiye Sekibo, who is the state director of Atiku Supporters for that the PDP presidential candidate would win in River State. Wike said Sekibo lacks the capacity to speak for the people of the state.
He described Sekibo as a self-seeking politician, who was unable to attract democratic dividends of any kind to the state and his Okrika hometown when he served as a Minister.
