The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party’s Governors Forum and the Party National Campaign Council for the Edo State Governorship Election, Governor Nyesom Wike, has fired back at his Kano State Counterpart, Abdullah Ganduje over his statement that Wike will be isolated as election approaches in Edo.
Wike says Ganduje is the one that needs to be isolated, not him.
Wike says this during the inauguration of the PDP campaign council in Abuja on Tuesday.
The Rivers State Governor says he and his party, PDP, cannot be intimidated by the threat coming from the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the coming governorship election in Edo.
Ganduje, during a media briefing on Monday, in Abuja says, “We know the PDP made Wike their (campaign council) chairman. I assure you; we will isolate Wike in an isolation centre and before he recovers, the election is over.”
In response to that, Wike says, “Nobody can intimidate us in this election. Yesterday, I was told and today I read on the pages of newspapers that one Governor Ganduje said that he is going to isolate me until the election is over. If Nigeria is supposed to be a country, who is supposed to be isolated?
“A man who pockets dollars in babanriga (flowing gown) from contractors is not isolated and you say that me should be isolated. In this country, where are we heading to?
“Let me tell you why they (APC) made Ganduje the chairman of the campaign council; it is because of the dollars they saw. But for dollars, Ganduje could not have been made the chairman of the campaign council.
“But what he doesn’t understand is that we are from the Niger Delta; we shall chop his dollar and we will chop him to a coma. So, Ganduje, your dollar will not work in Edo State, we have integrity in our party.”
Campaign Chairman of the PDP on behalf of members of the council promises to ensure victory for the party in the Edo election.
Before that, the National Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, urges President Muhammdu Buhari to save the country’s democracy by ensuring that the votes of the people count, not only in Edo, but across states where elections would be held going forward.
In his words, “We recall that it’s in Edo State that President Goodluck Jonathan was in a ruling party when Comrade Adams Oshiomhole won election twice as a member of the opposition because of the transparency of the time.
“Today, as we go into this election in the same Edo, the situation in our country is different not just because of the global COVID-19 pandemic that has changed the World order, but more due to the prevailing uncertainties in our land.”
He adds that Nigerians are living in fear because of “senseless killings and the misuse of security forces to manipulate the electoral process.”
