By Ann Godwin, Port Harcourt
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said he will reveal the presidential candidate to moblise votes for in the 2023 general election in January, 2023.
He said, from January, he would embark on a statewide campaign to tell Rivers people the person to vote for.
He added that he would undertake a nationwide campaign tour to tell Nigerians the most preferred presidential candidate requiring their votes.
Wike stated this, yesterday, at the inauguration of Rumuokwurusi-Elimgbu Flyover (10th flyover) in Rumuokwurusi town in Obio-Akpor Council.
According to him, Nigerians need to know a reliable candidate they can trust to deliver the needed national transformation with the expected capability, and results.
“So, from January next year, I will campaign to my people on whom to vote for. All of you, who have been in suspense, wait, January is coming. Not only will I tell them where they will vote, I will move from state to state and tell them why they should vote for the people I think they should vote for.”
He said 2023 general election will also be used to retire some politicians.
Wike lamented that some persons have caused societal ills due to their political inconsistency and wondered if they could, in good conscience, claim to be fair to Nigerians and are fit to lead them.
He said; “Those of you, who have never been stable, you move from PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) to another party, and you moved from there back to PDP. Those of you who campaigned in 2015, telling Nigerians if they vote for PDP, they are voting for insurgency; if they vote for PDP, they’re voting for corruption; wait, all of us will reply. We will tell Nigerians this thing that you said. Where do you stand now? Is it the same PDP or a new PDP?”
Wike insisted that going into an election and winning the needed victory goes beyond appearances on television shows, casting aspersions on others and talking big.
He said: “All of you appearing on television abusing me, don’t waist your saliva again. January has come. All those of you who are telling Nigerians that you used to have 40 shoes, you used to have 50 wrist watches, time has come to convert those shoes and wrist watches to votes. It’s not to be on the podium and raise your shoes high. And raise your wristwatch high. Time has come to convert them to votes.”
Source: The Guardian
