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  • Ayu is corrupt, collected 1bn from a presidential candidate – Wike

    Ayu is corrupt, collected 1bn from a presidential candidate – Wike

    Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has accused the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, of being very corrupt, stating that he collected the sum of one billion Naira from a presidential candidate in Lagos.

    Governor Wike stated this in a media chat with selected television stations on Friday.

    Wike said he was ready to mention the very candidate who the party’s Chairman received the money from if the need be.

    According to him, “Ayu is very corrupt. He cannot deny the fact that he is very corrupt.

    “Ayu collected N1 billion from Lagos. He collected 1bn from a presidential candidate and if he denies it, I will name who gave him the money.

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    “Ayu met one of the presidential candidates and told him he doesn’t think the governors were ready to sponsor the party’s convention and he was given N1 billion.

    “That money is not in the party’s coffers. I can tell you the name of the businessmen who were present when he collected the money.”

  • Running Mate : PDP forms committee to screen Wike, Okowa

    In an effort to meet up with the  June 17th  deadline  for submission of party’s flagbearer and running mate  to  the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the formation  of  another committee to screen Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, his Delta State counterpart, Ifeanyi Okowa and others as possible vice president nominees.

    An earlier screening committee set up to pick one out of the many people considered for the post yesterday picked Governor Nyesom Wike as it’s preferred choice after a vote of 16-3.

    Recall that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar emerged the party’s 2023 presidential candidate in a keenly contested National Convention last month.

    Consequently, the PDP as contained in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, Wednesday, constituted the Vice Presidential Candidate Screening/Verification Committee (VPSC).

    According to the statement, “pursuant to Part VI, Paragraph 14 of the Electoral Guidelines of our great Party, the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) has approved the nomination of the following Party members to serve on the Vice Presidential Candidate Screening Committee for the screening/verifying of the nominated Vice Presidential Candidate of our Party for the 2023 general elections”.

    PDP appointed High Chief Tom Ikimi as Chairman and made Dr. Akilu Indabawa the Secretary.

    Other members of the PDP VPSC include: former governor of Kogi State, Capt. Idris I. Wada (rtd), former minister of aviation, Chief Osita Chidoka, Rt. Hon. Binta Bello, Chief Mrs. Alh. Mutiat Adedoja, Rt. Hon. Austin Opara, Prof. Aisha Madawaki, Mrs. Ayotunde George-Ologun, Chief Mrs. Chidiebelu Mofus and Fidelis Tapgun. Mr. Sunday Omobo is the Administrative Secretary.

    “The screening exercise will hold at the National Working Committee (NWC) Hall, PDP National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Abuja on Thursday, June 16, 2022, at 10am,” the party stated.

    The PDP has limited the running mate battle to the South with Rivers state governor,Nyesom Wike and his Delta state counterpart leading the pack as favourite.

  • Group condemns Wike for anti-Ijaw comments

    Group condemns Wike for anti-Ijaw comments

    Angered by a comment attributed to Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike attacking the Ijaw ethinic group, the Ijaw Youth Council has condemned the development.

    This follows the Governor’s controversial directive for the arrest and arraignment of the member representing Degema/Bonny Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Farah Dagogo.

    The council in a statement issued on Tuesday by its spokesman, Ebilade Ekerefe, described Wike’s outburst as insulting and totally unacceptable to the Ijaw nation.

    Thenewsguru.com learnt that the Rivers Governor had during a thanksgiving service in Port Harcourt for the state’s legal victory over Imo State concerning 17 oil wells, declared “thunder fire you, Ijaw National Congress and the Ijaw Youth Council” for demanding the unconditional release of Dagogo.

     

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    The IYC, in the statement, titled, ‘Dagogo: Ijaw youths condemn Wike’s outburst’, said that the governor’s comments were not only disturbing and inciting but also a denigration of the exalted office of governor that he occupies.

    It pointed out that such tactless and disrespectful comments by Governor Wike was the height of his prolonged disdain for the Ijaw nation as a whole and Rivers Ijaw people in particular since he became the governor of the state.

    “It is even more shocking that the Rivers governor took his unrestrained verbiage to the hallowed pulpit of a church and desecrated the altar of God,” the statement stressed.

     

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    The apex Ijaw youth body expressed surprise that a call for the release of Dagogo could be a ‘sin’ in the eyes of Wike to warrant his attack on the Ijaw nation in the manner he did it.

    The body reminded Wike that power is transient and that by May 29, 2023, he will vacate the exalted governorship seat that he has equally ridiculed, to become an ordinary citizen like others in Rivers State and Nigeria.

    The IYC further said that despite being the fourth largest ethnic nationality in Nigeria and the largest in the Niger Delta, the Ijaws have consistently promoted peaceful and harmonious relationships with other ethnic groups, including Wike’s Ikwerre nationality in Rivers State.

    It stated, “However, Wike should be reminded that such unguarded and incendiary comments are capable of rupturing the existing good relationship with the Ikwerres, and his kinsmen are advised to call him to order. Wike has forgotten that by calling fire and thunder on the Ijaw nation, his benefactor and our revered leader, former President Goodluck Jonathan, is an illustrious Ijaw son.

    “This “thunder” did not fire the former president when, despite all odds, he made him (Wike) the choice of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State against the wishes of other competent Ijaw aspirants in the state.

    “Now, Jonathan as an Ijaw man, is also under fire from Governor Wike. For him, all those that made him, including the people of Rivers State, are in his pocket and can be insulted at will.”

    The body therefore, advised Ijaw people to see Governor Wike as an enemy of the Ijaw nation and they should speak up against his tyrannical behaviour, thenewsguru.ng further reports.

    The Ijaw body then cautioned that if Wike, as a sitting governor could cast aspersions on an entire ethnic nationality, he might do worse things if he becomes the President of Nigeria in the 2023 National Election in Nigeria.

  • I am the only one that can defeat APC – Wike

    I am the only one that can defeat APC – Wike

    A presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said he is the onlyy one that can wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 elections.

    He started this while addressing delegates in Lokoja, the Kogi State Capital on Wednesday.
    Wike noted that the ruling APC has plunged the country into a deep hole to the extent that only a president with great character and political strength will harness all available human resources with close supervision to pull the country out.

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    In his words; “This country has never been this divided with so many insecurities even in Mr. President’s home state. Nigeria, therefore, needs someone who can bail her out, and I am putting myself forward to rescue her.”
    To Governor Wike, next year’s election is what every Nigerian must face front ally because the country needs the best.
    He however admitted that no one can do it alone and that the next president must know how to harness all available human resources for optimal performance.
    Governor Wike said his party had done so much for him as a person, and he would do everything within his power to repay the party members by giving them good governance.

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    “I owe PDP a lot; even if I don’t win the ticket, I will remain PDP
    Let me go and take power from APC. What should be on the lips of every delegate now should be Wike!” he said.
    He asked those not delegates to monitor delegates to deliver him for the party.
    “We need a strong leader who takes action when necessary. We need a leader with character who knows a particular thing and stands by it.
    “Give your vote to someone with energy who will work for you.
    “Vote for me and go to bed; I will work for you,” he further assured.

  • News Hour 26-07-2017 I TNGtv