21st October, 2022
By Okafor Ofiebor /Port Harcourt
Rivers governor, Nyesom Wike, has said he is not is not a born-again Christian because he will fully retaliate when slapped instead of abiding by the biblical injunction of turning the other cheek.
Wike who is at the vanguard of the the ongoing crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said this during the birthday celebration of his Abia State counterpart and ally, Okezie Ikpeazu.
While describing Ikpeazu as “a quiet man who observes the Bible verse that when ‘they slap you, turn the other cheek’, the Rivers State governor said he would retaliate rather than turn the other cheek if anybody slapped him.
Indeed, Wike said he would blow off the head of anybody who slaps him.
He said: “Ikpeazu is a quiet man and a born-again Christian; I’m not a born-again Christian. I’m a Christian but not a born-again Christian.
“I told Ikpeazu; they said ‘if they slap you turn the other side’, but me, if you slap me here; I don’t know, if I would survive the other side. So, I will blow your head off.”
Wike has been aggrieved with the PDP’s leadership following Atiku Abubakar’s emergence as the party’s presidential candidate.
With Atiku being PDP’s presidential candidate, Wike had called on the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu to resign.
The governor argued that a particular region should not provide PDP’s presidential candidate and the National Chairman.
Ikpeazu, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State are in the camp of members of PDP pushing for Ayu’s removal led by Wike