Wike argued that the only person that would defend the people of Rivers had their ear, adding that Secondus had no influence on them.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has accused former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, of supporting the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for his own personal interest.
Wike’s latest jibe directed at Secondus came after the latter claimed the governor was planning to impose a candidate on the people of Rivers because Wike said he would reveal his preferred presidential candidate in January 2023 as his squabble with Atiku and the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, drags on.
During the commissioning of Aluu-Omagwa Road in Ikwerre Local Government Area (LGA) on Saturday, Wike said, “…I never said I was going to impose my candidate on Rivers people. I said I was going to tell Rivers people whom I’m going to support, whom I’m going to campaign for. But you see, you don’t blame them.
“When you didn’t finish secondary school, you will not understand the grammar that ‘I will tell Rivers people whom I want to support’ does not mean I said, ‘Rivers people, I will impose a candidate on you.’”
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Wike argued that the only person that would defend the people of Rivers had their ear, adding that Secondus had no influence on them.
“You (Secondus) cannot defend the interest of Rivers people all you want is that Atiku wins so you can get an oil bloc. That’s all. Just like the one you forced to be a senator in Rivers South-East because he was not supposed to be a senator. It was Magnus Abe that was supposed to be senator, an educated man at that level,” he said.
“I don’t know how Secondus would have the effrontery, the temerity to talk to somebody like me who finished primary school, secondary school very well, who went to university very well, went for youth service, came back for university, went to law school, was called to bar,” he said.