2023 Presidency: I Secured My Wife’s Buy-In Before Contesting …Justifies Shunning Gov, Deputy, PDP Secretariat During Edo Visit

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has said that he first consulted with his wife, Justice Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike before declaring to contest for president in 2023.
The Rivers State governor said that if she did not approve of his ambition, he would not have made a declaration for the nation’s top job in the coming general election.
Wike made this known in an interview with BBC Pidgin English Service aired, last Friday, and monitored by The Tide in Port Harcourt.
He was responding to a question on whether there was anything that could make him step down from his presidential bid on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The Rivers State governor said the only thing that can make him step down was if he was dead.
He quickly added that God was with him, and he would not die now.
“Nothing will make me step down. Nobody who loves this country will see how it is and will not look for a means to change the situation. Who will change it for you?
“And luckily, before I came out, I told my wife, and she said go ahead. If I told my wife, and she got upset about it, and said no, I will obey. But she said go ahead, and that’s what I am doing”, he said.
Speaking on why he shunned Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, during his recent special interactive meeting with delegates and leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Wiike said, “I did not visit Governor Godwin Obaseki because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not send me there.
“They dispatched me to meet with delegates (rather than the governor) to discuss how our party will win the presidential race in 2023.
“It’s nowhere written that I have to go via the governor before seeing the party delegates.
“I’m not in a relationship with Governor Godwin Obaseki, and he’s not my girlfriend, so, why am I fighting with him?”
“I have been a friend of Edo PDP Chairman, Dr. Dan Orbih, until his elevation to the position of deputy vice chairman, South-South”.
Wike did not also meet with Obaseki’s Deputy, Philip Shaibu.
He further avoided the Edo PDP Secretariat in Benin City, where the state party Chairman, Dr. Tony Aziegbemi holds the ace.
During the visit, Wike, who was greeted by a throng of fans, had met with Edo PDP delegates at the mansion of a former Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT), the late Chief Tony Anenih.
Wike and Obaseki have been involved in a public feud, with the Rivers State governor referring to his Edo counterpart as a serial betrayer and ungrateful individual.
He expressed sincere regret to Obaseki’s old godfather and predecessor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, for disregarding his warnings about the Edo governor.
Wike said: “If you ask anyone or check Godwin Obaseki’s DNA, what you would find in that DNA is serial betrayal and ungratefulness.
“Let me take this opportunity to apologise to Adams Oshiomhole, who had been justified by informing us that we would see Governor Obaseki’s true colours, insincerity, and ungratefulness.”
The issue began when Obaseki insulted Wike, claiming that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was not the party of the governor.
The Edo governor stated that political bullies and overlords will not be tolerated, recalling Wike’s success in dethroning bullies and high-handed leaders.

By: Nelson Chukwudi