Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, says the members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should be worried over the endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Wike said the PDP members attacking him on behalf of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, should be looking out for a solution to the issues he pointed out.

The governor said this at the flag-off of the construction of Mgbuodohia road in Rivers State on Tuesday.

He stated that he didn’t mock Atiku for saying Obasanjo’s choice of Obi over his vice means “there is something fundamentally wrong”.

Governor Wike said: “I meant no bad. I’m only worried as a prominent PDP member. A man who loves PDP should be worried. That’s all my concern. I was not mocking anybody.

“I was merely worried because my prayer was ‘Let Obasanjo remains quiet and not say anything.’ That was my prayer but my prayer didn’t work.

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“My prayer was that if this man makes any statement, it indicts us because he was president under the Peoples Democratic Party for eight years and he worked with our presidential candidate for eight years.

“One now concludes that having done so, then the principal will hand over to him having thought that this is the person that I think should do this job better. But when the principal has said, ‘No, it’s another person,’ it worried me and that’s why I said something is fundamentally wrong.”

He added: “Instead of them to say, ‘what do you think is wrong?’ you are abusing me. What did I do? I didn’t do anything; all I expressed was a concern: ‘something is fundamentally wrong.’

“If you care for this party, it is for you to now go back and ask, ‘what is it that is fundamentally wrong that this man did what he did?’ And then you’re abusing me. I don’t understand. You’re abusing the man that is worried that the party should do something.

“I’ve told people, those who love this party, those who know that if anything happens to this party are those who are worried about the party, not those who are moving around every day.

“They are not bothered but those of us who since 1998, we joined this party, contributed to the survival of this party till now, that’s why we’re always shouting,” Wike stated.

Governor Wike and his allies, known as G5, have been at loggerheads with Atiku over his alleged refusal to prevail on the PDP National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, to resign after the former Vice President, a northerner, clinched the party’s presidential ticket in May 2022.

The aggrieved governors have insisted that it is unfair for the main opposition party to have the national chairman and presidential candidate from the northern region of the country ahead of the 2023 general election, stressing Ayu should resign his position for justice, equity, and fairness in the PDP.

The Star