Governor Nyesom Wike had on Tuesday declared that he is bringing down the structures of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, in the preparation for the 2023 general elections, with his team. Wike made the statement as he berated peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders moving around with the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, after the Monday event in kano where former Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State, Senator representing Kano Central in the National Assembly defected to the PDP from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
The Rivers State governor also protested the frequency of discussions on his person on various television stations, saying PDP members should focus on how to win the 2023 general elections and take over power from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The governor challenged the PDP members to mobilise people for the victory of the party.
He had declared: “Wike and his team are busy here bringing down all structures of APC, providing dividends of democracy. In your own state, you are only talking about Wike.”
The PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was accompanied to Kano for the reception of Shekarau’s return to the party by the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; PDP Board of Trustees Chairman, Walid Jibrin; former Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, former Vice President Nemadi Sambo, and others.
Governor Wike at the inauguration of the Ogbunaabani Sand field and Estate Layout on Tuesday broadcasted live on TVC, NTA, etc. monitored from Lagos by National Daily, narrated: “I was watching television yesterday when they went to Kano to receive Shekarau. I saw one rapist from Rivers State sitting at the back where he went to join them to receive Shekarau but I asked him; ‘How many people have you made to join your party in your state?’
“You have gone to receive somebody somewhere but you have not made efforts to receive other people to join your own party in your state. You like when food is ready, you will go but for you to cook, it is where people have cooked that you go to eat the food but you won’t cook your own.
“As people who want the party to win or who want their candidate to win the election, what role are you playing in your state to make sure your party wins the election?
“How many people have you been able to galvanise, mobilise them for them to leave their party to join your party? That is to show you are committed, willing and ready to make your party win an election.”