The ensuing rift between Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike has taken a new twist as the Rivers governor lambasted Obaseki thoroughly on Monday as apologising to the former Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole.
While addressing a crowd at an event on Monday in Rivers State, Governor Wike accused Governor Obaseki of betrayal and ingratitude.
According to him, the Edo governor has refused to be grateful to the party and the people who supported him to be re-elected when he left the All Progressives Congress (APC) and was politically drenched.
Governor Wike, however, apologised to a former national chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, whom he said had initially warned them about accepting Governor Obaseki into the PDP fold.
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‘If you check the DNA of Obaseki, what you will see in that DNA is betrayal, serial betrayal, and ungratefulness,’ he said while addressing a crowd at the commissioning of a secondary school in Omuanwa community, Rivers State.
‘Let me stand today to apologise to Adams Oshiomhole who has been vindicated by telling us that we will see the true colour, the insincerity, the ungratefulness of Governor Obaseki.
‘We have voted for PDP since 1999 till now; ask Governor Obaseki if he has done anything for PDP (or) voted for PDP. The only election he voted was his own election – where we gave him an umbrella.’
Africa Today News, New York recalls that Governor Obaseki had earlier slammed Governor Wike over his reaction to comments by Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, that PDP members who defected from the APC in Edo were not happy and do not feel accepted into the new party.
He had also said Nigeria needed strong democratic institutions and not strong men, stressing the need for the PDP to position itself to reclaim power at the centre in 2023.
Governor Wike, in his reaction, described the comments by his Edo counterpart as a rant, saying governance was about feeling and touching, and not a memorandum of understanding.
He went on to highlight his contribution to the efforts that led to Governor Obaseki’s re-election, having served as the Director-General (DG) of his campaign organisation in 2020.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK