2023: Wike Finally Reveals How His Successor Will Be Selected, Blasts APC

- Governor Wike of Rivers state has said that the PDP would determine the zone that would produce his successor

- Wike made the disclosure on Saturday, April 10, during a political campaign in the state

- The governor, however, said that the ruling APC has failed to fulfil any of its promises

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Nyesom Wike, the Rivers state governor, has said that no individual can unilaterally decide who would succeed him and where the governorship ticket would be zoned to in 2023.

Leadership reports that he said stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state will meet at the appropriate time and decide his successor.

Legit.ng gathered that Wike spoke on Saturday, April 10, during the grand finale of the PDP local government campaign for the April 17, 2021 election in the state.

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The governor said:

“I don’t want to talk about politics of who is from here and who is not from there. At the appropriate time the PDP family will sit down, the leaders of the party will sit down and look at everything together and then take a decision, not one man and even me as governor can say this is where we are zoning it to.

“You cannot say that. It is not your father’s property. So nobody should panic. It is not for one man who thinks he owns Rivers State. Somebody said he is going to give governorship slot to the Kalabaris, now it’s no longer to the Kalabaris, but to the riverine area.”

The Nation also reports that Wike insisted that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government had failed Nigerians by not keeping to its social contract with the people of the country.

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He said:

“Time has come when you make a promise to the people you must fulfil the promise. Time has come that we can no longer listen to empty promises of politicians like what the ruling party is doing today."

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that Governor Wike revealed why he sacked the commissioner for environment, Igbiks Tamuno, on Tuesday, March 30

It was reported that Wike said the sacked commissioner wrote to Julius Berger to stop construction work in the state without his approval.

Source: Legit.ng