14th February, 2023
By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has explained that the G-5 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have withdrawn from talking regularly in public to embark on strategic actions in silence in order to achieve set goals.
“So, no matter how much those who think that the group has either disintegrated or died, and yet are anxiously pushing to know the activities of the group, they will never come near knowing their next line of action,” he said
Wike stated this at St. Paul’s Primary School Field, in Ahoada Town, venue of the campaign flag-off rally organised by the Rivers State PDP campaign council for Ahoada East Local Government Area on Tuesday.
Wike, who described Senator Lee Maeba, a member of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in the State as an illiterate for claiming that the G-5 is dead.
He said it is preposterous for a clueless man who sold oil block allocated to him and took the proceeds to Chicago, United State, where he spent it to destroy a family of a kinsman from Khana Local Government Area to talk about the G-5.
The Governor insisted that in politics, there is time to always appear in public to indulge in talks, and that having satisfactorily maximised that time, the group has withdrawn into silence to activate requisite political actions because 25th February 2023 is in view.
“You people say G-5 is dead. We that you said are dead are not worried. But, you that is alive is worried. We are not talking again, we are not worried. Yet you are worried. You fail to realise that in politics there is time for talking and time for action. Action has started and 25th February is the D-day.
“You can never know what our plans and strategies are no matter how you people pressurise us, we will not disclose our strategy. The more you look, the less you see,” he said.
Replying to the allegations of threat to the life of members of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in the State, as claimed by Dr. Abiye Sekibo, the Director-General of the group, Wike wondered why it is only Sekibo and his group raising false alarm about insecurity in Rivers State.
Wike informed that both presidential candidates of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, had campaigned in Rivers State, enjoyed logistics provided by the State government and never complained of any threat to life.
He also said that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu is expected to campaign in Rivers State on Wednesday, because the party had applied and gotten a venue approved for them without any of them complaining of insecurity or threat to their lives.
Wike, who insisted that Rivers State is the most peaceful State in the federation and that nobody could toil with it, told Sekibo to stop deceiving PDP governors who he is collecting money from on the pretense that he would mobilise people for the campaign rally for PDP’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.