Presidency: Atiku paid for ignoring G-5’s warning – Wike

Tamarauemi Ebimini

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State says the inability of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, to heed the warning of the G-5 cost him the presidential election.

Speaking at Okomoko Community Field while inaugurating the Chokocho-Igbodo Road in Etche Local Government Area on Monday, Wike said what befell PDP was avoidable if the national leadership of the party had heeded the appeals and demands to adopt the principle of equity, fairness and justice.

He said it was now settled that the presidency had returned to the south after the north completed its 8 years at the presidency.

Wike said while others were demonstrating against the outcome of the presidential elections, he was in Rivers inaugurating projects and satisfying the needs of the people.

The governor explained that there was no time he ever criticised either the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi or the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu during the campaigns.

Wike said he rather campaigned, unapologetically, to true lovers of Nigeria to vote for a southern presidential candidate in the spirit of equity, fairness and justice.

The governor said he is one of the apostles who stood firm that power must rotate and it was based on the conviction of equity, fairness and justice.

He told Etche people that he had no problem with anybody who had either voted for the Labour Party or the APC because the outcome of the presidential election is that Nigeria has a southerner elected as the next president.