Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has said that he would not allow himself to be treated as a second class citizen in Nigeria.
Wike stated this while speaking on Monday while addressing Rivers people after his return from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential primary election.
The governor, who lost the election to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, said the North should not claim ownership of the country, adding that Nigeria does not belong to a particular geo-political zone.
According to him: “We have all it takes to do whatever we want to do. It is a matter of you to be fruitful. We cannot answer second class citizens in Nigeria.
“We just used this one to tell them that enough is enough. We made them not to sleep, we made them not to eat, we made all of them from wherever they think they are coming from to know that there is somebody who can take them on.
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“This country does not belong to one particular zone. If people are afraid of talking, it is their business. I cannot be a second class citizen in my country.
“They just want somebody they can control, somebody that will do whatever they want him to do, I will never be a party to that. The only people that can control me are Nigerians, not the few people that want to remain in power since the military regime”.
