Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has reacted to accusations leveled against him and his Ekiti state counterpart, Ayodele Fayose, by Ali Modu Sheriff. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter binciki Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike has reacted to accusations leveled against him by Ali Modu Sheriff.
Wike said that contrary to the claim by the factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, he has no plan to hijack the party. The Rivers state governor also rejected Sheriff’s condition that he (Wike) should step down as the National Chairman of the PDP National Convention Planning Committee and that the party’s convention should be moved to Abuja.
The governor was reacting to the PDP factional chairman’s allegation that he (Wike) and his counterpart from Ekiti state, Mr Ayo Fayose, were making moves to seize the control of the party at the national level. Speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday, August 15, Wike described Sheriff as being petty, adding that he would continue to give the PDP the support it required. Also describing Sheriff as a member of the party who was not ready to make sacrifices for the party to move forward, the governor pointed out that Sheriff failed to prove his critics, who predicted that he would destroy the PDP, wrong.
“Did we hijack the party when he said he never expected he would be chairman and then we made him chairman? Now, because it is not in his favour, he is saying we are hijacking the party. “It is very wrong for Sheriff to have said that. When did he come to the party? We were in the PDP since its formation. Am I going to hijack the party from a person that just (recently) became a member?
“Sheriff has nothing to say again and that is why he is talking about the hijacking of the party. Who is going to contribute more in terms of PDP winning? I am from Rivers State, he (Sheriff) is from Borno. “What is the vote from Borno that he gave to the PDP and what is the vote from Rivers that I gave to the PDP? If there is election today, who will support the PDP more? Is it him from his state or me from Rivers state?”
Meanwhile, Dayo Adeyeye, the national publicity secretary of the PDP has released a statement to explain the party’s position on its convention suspension. It reads in part: “A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt Rivers State had earlier in the day given a comprehensive order wherein the Honourable Judge specifically ordered the PDP to proceed with the convention as scheduled without hindrance. Indeed his lordship while giving the order mandated all relevant agencies including the Police, DSS and INEC to cooperate with the party in organizing a hitch free National Convention.
“The faction also argued that the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state gave an Interlocutory Order while Justice Abang, Abuja, gave an Interim Order. “The order of Port Harcourt is clearly superior and earlier in time to the interim order given by Justice Okon Abang. In the light of the above, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a law abiding Party is obeying the Order of the Port Harcourt, Federal High Court until set aside by any competent Court of jurisdiction.”
Source: Naij.com