Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has disclosed that he almost scuttled the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential primary after Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State was allowed to return to the podium to announce his withdrawal from the race.
Wike said that his defeat to Atiku Abubakar in the presidential primary election of the PDP was the will of God.
The governor stated this while speaking on Monday at a reception in his honour at the Government House in Port Harcourt following his return to the state after primary in Abuja.
According to him: “I have never seen how people can violate procedures and guidelines. Somebody has spoken, it is at that point he was speaking that he would have said I am withdrawing. You don’t call him back,” Wike said. “I just said, ‘Look, this our party must not be destroyed.’
“It is God’s will, let us not bother ourselves so much,”
Also Read: 2023: Wike Declares Support For Atiku
He added: “Shame to those who will sell out their own,” he said, maintaining that “I have never seen a thing like that”.
“No wonder we cannot move on with development. Look at, a region ganged up. Then, your own region cannot gang up,”
“You became a tool to be used against the interest of your people and you think you have won. You have lost.”
