2023: Don’t blame me if you lose – Wike to Atiku

Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers state, has told the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, not to blame him if he loses the election next year.

Wike who has been locked in a cold war with Atiku since he picked Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate.

The governor denied suing Atiku and the PDP over the party’s presidential primary, and he got an applause for that from the national chairman of the party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu.

“I have kept quiet and busy delivering the dividends of democracy for my party to win election; people are busy plotting how they will win election, but others are busy trying to see how they will lose election.

“If they lose the election nobody should call my name. I have told the candidate, you will lose this election and you will win this election because of people around you. Anybody who knows me knows that if I was going to court, I would have gone to court within two weeks after the primaries because it is a pre-election matter and after two weeks you can’t go to the court.

“The legal adviser of the party called me and I told him you know there is mischief going on; you know me very well if I am going to court it is not those kind of lawyers I would have used and I don’t even know the lawyers. I want to tell the candidate (Atiku) that it is his group that is doing all these things. Let the world hear.

“They are the ones plotting all these things thinking that they would spoil my name. You cannot. The other day they said I removed all PDP flags in Government House. We are supposed to be talking about how you will win election, not about these people. They are not doing him any favor, rather they are trying to make him not to win election. But if that is what they want, I wish them good luck.

“But after my commissioning of projects nobody should say Wike has started. When I start, I have been on my own, they are looking for my trouble. Allow peace to reign. If you say your mother will not sleep, you too you will not sleep at the appropriate time,” Wike said.