ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Again, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike says he has no intention or plan to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing the insinuations as speculative.
The Ikwere-born politician, who has been at loggerheads with his party, the PDP, maintained that he remains an unrepentant member of the main opposition party, APC.
This is despite his stance on zoning the presidency to the southern part of the country.
Governor Wike said this on Monday at the 114th quarterly general meeting of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers in Port Harcourt, the state capital, saying that APC is the hero of Nigeria.
He said: “I am not a member of APC and I will not be. But, they have made me to recognise that they are the heroes of this country.”
Recalling how the Governors of the ruling party, especially those from the north, insisted that power must shift to the south during the primary elections, Wike said they regarded unity as paramount.
“The governors of APC said the way the county is, they want the unity of this country and, therefore, the presidency should go to the South,” he added.
From all indications, the Rivers helmsman is working with the APC and its candidate on national level having declared war against the presidential candidate of his party, Daily Post reports.
Wike and his party have been at war ever since the outcome of presidential primary of the main opposition party did not favour him.
The Governor, who had declared he would work with whoever emerged winner of the primary election, however, remained aggrieved since May 2022 when Atiku Abubakar was declared winner of the party’s primary election.