PDP G5: All votes must be in one basket from governorship to House of Assembly, except one vote – Wike  

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State at a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign in Ikwerre Local Government Area, Rivers State, to the people that all the PDP votes in the state must go into one basket for the governorship, senatorial, House of Representatives and House of Assembly candidates, except one, which is the presidential candidate. The Rivers State Governor, who is leader of the five protesting PDP governors, the PDP G5, who governors Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Okezie Ikpeazu of ABia State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, said that discussion is still ongoing among the G5 to decide who among the presidential candidate for the 2023 elections to support, saying that the discussion will soon be concluded.

Governor Wike maintained that Rivers voters will not intimidated in the 2023 general elections holding on February 25 and March 11 2023.

Wike had declared: “Now, it is one man, one vote. All the votes must be in one basket from governorship to House of Assembly. The other one we are concluding. When we conclude, you will be told.

“Nobody should intimidate you. Nobody should tell you any story. We are free born of this country. We are not second-class citizens. Nobody can tell us anything. I dare them. Let anybody do any funny thing, we will tell them we are from Rivers State.

“This election we are going for is a fight to finish and we are very ready. We are waiting for those strangers, those people who can sell their state for a pot of porridge, we are waiting for them to come back. Do they have anything to offer?”

Wike and his colleagues and others in the protest have been demanding the resignation of the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, since Wike lost the presidential ticket of the PDP to Atiku Abubakar at the party’s National Convention.