The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has expressed readiness to receive former Governor of the State, Nyesom Wike, if he decides to defect to the ruling party.
A chieftain of the APC and former Chief of Staff, Rivers State Government House, Chief Tony Okocha stated this at a news briefing in Port Harcourt. This followed speculations that Wike may dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the APC.
Okocha who was the Coordinator of the BAT-Vanguard, an acronym for the disbanded Bola Ahmed Tinubu Vanguard in the South-South, said Wike has the right to join any party. He said the role Wike played in the emergence of Tinubu as Nigeria’s incumbent President cannot be over-emphasised, noting that some persons want to reap where they didn’t sow.
Okocha stated, “We are noticing that some persons who abandoned Tinubu when Tinubu needed them most and voyaged outside the shores are now relying on their personal relationships one way or the other to begin to make some sense of entitlement.
He also urged the former Rivers State Governor not to delay in joining the APC to reap from his efforts in seeing Tinubu as President. According to him, “Our demand is that nobody should rob Peter to pay Paul. Our own share of the booty given to us should be handed over to His Excellency Nyesom Wike. We are confident that as soon as it gets to him, he knows those who worked for Tinubu, and it will get to us”.
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