Wike Media Office insists that portraying the governor as being desperate for the presidency is unfair.
By Emma Ogbuehi
The Wike Media Office (WMO), has described as uncharitable, the attempt to portray Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, as being desperate over his 2023 presidential aspiration
The Office argued rather, that as any other 2023presidential aspirant, Wike is constitutionally eligible to contest any political office in Nigeria, adding that he should not be vilified for having the courage to step out to be part of the efforts to rescue Nigeria from the current state of slide.
The WMO, which made the declaration in a statement, contended that rather than some presidential aspirants trying to undermine Wike’s legitimate aspiration, given his growing popularity, they should rather embrace and join him in his onerous task of rebuilding a country that has been grounded by sheer lack of courage, grit, guts, reason, character and boldness.
The release maintained that Governor Wike is bold, courageous and has guts to speak truth to power.
It stressed: “In recent time, since His Excellency Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike ( N.E.W) declared his intention to run for the president of the Federal Republic, some aspirants have deliberately tried to rake up mud against his person, using fifth columnists and hirelings to concoct stories that cannot be founded.
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“They accused the Governor of being disrespectful to other aspirants, accused him of being desperate for power, even when they failed to state the locus. We, at the Wike Media Office (WMO) are alarmed by the deliberate campaign of calumny and pull-him-down syndrome presently being deployed by those who cannot stand Governor Wike’s growing popularity across the country and trying effortlessly to demean his person and character.
“The fact must be stated that Governor Wike is bold, courageous and has guts to speak truth to power. His friends and colleagues appreciate his sense of camaraderie and ability to speak his mind, no matter whose ox is gored. Anybody who is aspiring to lead Nigeria must shy away from hypocrisy and cronyism, and be bold to speak truth to power to sustain a leadership that can fit into the expectations of Nigerians in a 21st century world.
“Given our present ugly realities in Nigeria coupled with leadership failure that has atrophied development and growth of a nation of greater opportunities, we need an interventionist leader to urgently arrest the drift to save the country from further implosion.
“The country is heavily polarised with copious faultiness and cracks, deepening schism, impoverishment, hunger, poverty and starvation. The country is visibly challenged at the leadership level, exposing the weaknesses of our collegiate solidarity and national harmony.
“At such a time, we need a therapeutic leader who can heal the wounds in the land. We need a man in the orientation of Governor Wike, with the right frame of mind, comportment, sagacity, diligence and nationalism to step into the fray and create the right impetus for a holistic response to all our challenges.
“Governor Wike’s presidential aspiration has come to stay. He is more than ever before committed to traversing the length and breadth of Nigeria to stimulate the right appeal as the day of the party’s primary election draws near.
“The PDP as an organic party with clearly defined rules of engagement will do well to have a man who has contributed immensely to the growth and development of the party since inception in 1998 without defection”.
