Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has declared his interest to join the 2023 presidential race.
Wike, stated that he has the capacity to win the 2023 presidential election for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), during a consultative meeting with the party’s stakeholders at the Government House in Makurdi, Benue State.
The Governor solicited for votes of the Benue PDP ahead of the national delegates convention of the party.
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Wike also stressed on his stance for the PDP to zone its presidential ticket to the South.
“To remove APC from power, I’m the person who can tell them enough is enough. We must take this power and I’m ready to take it for PDP. God is with us that’s why APC keeps failing everyday.
“I’m declaring it (presidential ambition) for the first time in Benue. I’m going to run for election,” Wike said.
“I stood for this party. I work for this party since 1998. I have nowhere to run to and that’s why anything that happens to this party I take it personally. I have never relented.
“In 2015, those who ran away made us lose the election. Today, they are crying but some of us stood and said PDP will not die,” Wike added.
On what he received as plans by some aspirants for the presidential race, Wike said;
“Some people want to use Nigeria to buy back their personal business. They talk about private sector – let them mention the private business that had survived. Is it banks that your father had? Everybody is an employer of labour even in my house I have 50 people who feed from me. They should stop deceiving us.
“I have performed as a governor and can carry my shoulders high anywhere. I have the capacity to face this evil government, give me the mandate. I will speak the truth to power and nothing but the truth. I have the capacity to move this country forward.”
Meanwhile, Governor Samuel Ortom earlier prayed that God will grant his Rivers State counterpart his desire to rule the country.
Ortom recalled that his Rivers counterpart had never turned his back on Benue, especially in caring for the teeming displaced people occasioned by herders’ invasions in some parts of the state.
“On southern presidency I stand,” Ortom said.
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