Presidency, APC Sponsor Presidential Aspirant in PDP, Wike Alleges

Ernest Chinwo

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has stated that the presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are working hard to plant a presidential aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as part of plans to win the 2019 elections.

This is as he said nobody would be able to blindfold the people of Rivers State into supporting a presidential aspirant with compromised credentials.

In a press briefing in Port Harcourt yesterday, Wike stated that some of the presidential aspirants in the PDP were under the sponsorship of President Muhammadu Buhari.

He said: “But one thing you must take home is that I cannot be misled, I cannot be blindfolded; I know what’s going on. I know what the presidency and the APC are doing to plant a presidential aspirant in the PDP.

“I have not even mentioned how a very senior official of a security agency in the country told me which of the candidates to support! You can imagine me as a governor and the head of a security agency would tell me to support one or two persons: head of security agency who is in a government controlled by the APC! Come on, you direct me on who to support for president?”

The governor also said he would not impose a presidential aspirant on delegates from the state, insisting that the choice of who to support would be a collective decision of the entire party leadership in the state.