Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has slammed political critics and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who had condemned the same faith ticket but supported a presidential candidate from the North.
Gatekeepers News reports that Wike said this on Sunday at the special dedication service for the Rivers state PDP 2023 election campaign rallies, according to a statement by his Spokesman, Kelvin Ebiri.
The event was held at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has fielded a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the presidency while the PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar is also a Northerner like the incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari.
Wike, while speaking at the event, said it is important to ensure fair representation in the country’s political setting.
“You play on people’s intelligence. You say Nigeria is not ripe for a Muslim-Muslim ticket, I agree. But Nigeria is ripe for the presidency to remain in one zone? I mean, just look at the insult. You blow hot and cold,” he said.
“Most of you just sit there; you don’t ask yourselves questions. Somebody continues to sell these kinds of cheap ideas. You don’t ask the person, ‘I agree with what you are saying but look at what we are saying here’.
“Your party wants the presidency to go to the same zone where President Muhammadu Buhari is coming from. Who is cheating who?
“It is not now that politics have come, you want to come and tell the church a different story for your own personal interest. We have to be careful so that the church is not destroyed, because, all of us, for example, we are Anglicans, I will not allow anybody, for his selfish interest to destroy the church of Nigeria. I will not allow that.”
