LAGOS – Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and a frontline presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told the Lagos State delegates to the convention not the vote for those aspirants responsible for the party being in opposition.
Wike, who was in Lagos on Saturday to solicit the votes of the delegates, said, “PDP aspirants are the ones that made PDP to be in opposition today.
“Today, we are begging to take over power. Give your support to those who whatever happens they will remain in the party and don’t give opportunity to those who will form another party tomorrow.
“Even if I don’t win primary election, I will support anyone who wins. Give support to the aspirant who can help you win election, someone who has the capacity to win the election for PDP. I am that person.
He added, “Don’t listen to someone who will say that he is your in law or that he was done this and that. It is not what you were. Can the aspirant win the APC?
“I will face APC squarely as I did in Rivers State. If you give me the ticket on 28th and 29th May, just go home and sleep.
“Don’t let somebody use sentiment to beg for your votes. I have been tested which is why they call me ‘talk and do’. Even the Vice President of the country, who is in the ruling part, called me Mr. Project. I am going to replicate that in Nigeria.
“The report that we hear every day from the APC government is that 20 people have been killed. I have what it takes to fix Nigeria.
“I have challenged them when they said that Southern governors are running to be Vice President. I am not running to be vice president, but I am running to be President
“People are saying that the economy is bad, who will invest in a country with security challenges?
“The major project for me is to secure the lives and property of Nigerians.”
Among members of the entourage were Governor Seyi Mankinde of Oyo State, former Governor Ibrahim Dankwanbo of Gombe State, former Governor Donald Duke of Cross Rivers State, former Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, Senator Philip Aduda, Senator Suleiman Nazif, former Attorney General of the federation, Mohammed Adoke, Senator Hosea Agbola and others.
