Wike apologizes to Oshiomhole, says I have learned my lessons

• Wike apologizes to Oshiomhole saying let the past be the past
• He claims that he has learned his lesson and sincerely apologizes to Oshiomhole 

On Wednesday, Governor Nyesom Wike of River State apologized to Adams Oshiomhole, the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for the re-election of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State in September 2020.

At the opening of the Rumuepirikom Flyover, which the former APC chairman had commissioned in the state’s Obio-Akpor Local Government Area, Wike apologized to Oshiomhole.

Wike claims that he has learned his lesson and that the past should be left in the past.

“I use this opportunity to apologize to you. I came to Edo State to make sure your candidate didn’t win the election. I said you won’t win and you didn’t win. That assignment has been done and we now know who is who,” Wike told a smiling Oshiomhole.

“We are now friends, let bygones be bygones,” Wike, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) strongman told the ex-APC national chairman.

“I want to sincerely apologize to you. Each time you learn. People will praise you when you do for them. When you say, they are wrong, they begin to say all sorts of things.

“I’m sure those of them in my party before cannot do anything without Wike but because I said let the right thing be done, let agreement be agreement, I have now become an enemy. These are people who are praising me morning and night,” he maintained, noting that he stands on equity, fairness, and justice.

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Meanwhile, Oshiomhole praised Wike in his speech for the many “wonderful projects” in Rivers, stating that the numbers don’t lie. He claims that executive conversations can convey to the populace that political division does not equal conflict.

“I listened to you (Wike) attentively and you said Peter Obi is coming tomorrow. I want to congratulate you for that because I also invited Peter Obi when I was governor and those executive exchanges have a way of communicating to our people that political divide is not war,” Oshiomhole stated.

“I also invited governors from other states to Edo the last week before my tenure as you said, for them to see what I was able to do.

“I promise that when I get back to Abuja, I go take my mouth talk am wetin my mouth see (sic). The flyover I saw is not a culvert. There are people who commissioned culverts and said they were flyovers but what I am seeing here is a beautiful flyover which you will see anywhere in the world,” he added.