The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has dared his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to expel him and face the catastrophic consequences.
Wike threw down the gauntlet while he was flagging off a new road in Rivers State.
He said: ‘In 2003 when President Olusegun Obasanjo wanted to run for a second tenure―a whole president wanted to run for a second tenure―he knelt down before his vice and said, ‘my vice, please, allow me to run.’
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‘You know one of the conditions he gave him? That Tony Anenih must be sacked as the Minister of Works and that Tony Anenih must not be in the presidential campaign council. Obasanjo obliged and sacked Tony Anenih as the Minister of Works and removed him from the presidential campaign council. This is a president,[and] his own vice giving him condition; a retired General knelt down and was given conditions.
‘We (G5) are not even doing that; we are not saying sack this one; we are only saying that the constitution of our party must be respected based on what the national chairman said and based on what you told me in my house.’
The governor then dared the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to expel him from the party, saying ‘try and see how you will survive it.’
Meanwhile, the Governor of Delta State and Vice Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ifeanyi Okowa on Friday declared that only God has the power to determine Nigeria’s next President and not the action of G-5 governors.
Okowa made this declaration in Aboh on Friday, when he led Delta PDP campaign train to Ndokwa East and Ndokwa West Local Government Areas of the state.
He expressed optimism that the five governors would put the past behind them and work for the victory of PDP in the 2023 general elections.