Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has boasted that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) will not find it easy if he leaves the party.
Wike believes he is a major asset to the party, this is coming less than a week after the opposition party lost Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River to the All Progressives Congress (APC),
The River State governor also took a swipe at some members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) whom he described as tax collectors.
‘If I leave PDP tomorrow, the party will suffer… Some members of PDP NWC are tax collectors. I did not say that all the members of NWC are tax collectors but some of them and I stand by my words,’ he said at a briefing in Government House, Port Harcourt, on Monday.
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Wike described former Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State as a mole in the PDP that needs to leave the party.
He said that the former governor does not have a genuine intention for the party.
‘Babangida Aliyu is a mole in PDP. They get information from the PDP and send it to the ruling party. I am an asset to PDP if I leave the party today I will win election in any party I find myself. There is no political detractor in Rivers PDP as long as the party is concerned. If there is any State PDP is sure of winning election, it’s Rivers State. Aliyu is a political liability to PDP.
‘He is not an asset. He once said that the northern governors worked against Jonathan but some of the former PDP governors from the north denied it. I want to tell you that Aliyu opposed the election of Secondus as the National Chairman of PDP only to turn round to support Secondus when he was coasting to victory. How can a man who cannot organise ordinary Congress in his State ask PDP National Working Committee, NWC to suspend me?’
Africa Today News, New York recalls thatAliyu had in a media briefing in Abuja accused Wike of being the brain behind the move to remove Secondus as PDP National Chairman.
He had said Wike is playing God in PDP, arguing that the Governor wants to call the shots in the party’s leadership structure.
He also urged the PDP NWC to suspend Wike.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK