Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike has said that 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi’s camp is fighting him.
Gatekeepers News reports that Wike said this during a private luncheon he hosted in honour of Martin Amaewhule-led faction of Rivers House of Assembly with stakeholders in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers state on Saturday.
The FCT minister said he refused to support Obi for 2023 presidential election despite being lobbied so much for support.
Wike alleged that some persons in Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who want the party’s presidential ticket in 2027, are also ganging up against him and boasted that his political enemies would not emerge victorious.
He said, “Let me tell you what is going on. I have no regret at all for supporting President Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. I have no regret about it.”
“All these things you are seeing… there is Atiku’s group, Peter Obi’s group and some few governors of the PDP who believe I’m a problem to them. I will continue to be a problem to them.”
“Atiku’s group believes that I and my team stopped them from becoming president. What we stopped was injustice. All we wanted was equity and fairness.”
“Obi’s group — they lobbied me so much. They can’t deny it. I said, ‘look, this won’t fly. Rivers state will not go to where we will not… it won’t fly’. There is also a gang-up. They are fighting us back. They are fighting themselves.”
“There is another gang-up within the PDP who wants to be president and they say, ‘look if we don’t do anything now we have a problem’. I can assure you they will have a problem.
“There is another APC — very prominent. All these people combined, they will lose.”
