Wike backs Peter Obi, pledges ‘Logistics Support’ for his campaign

• Wike has backed Peter Obi’s candidacy and pledged logistics support while ignoring Atiku
• He lamented that he knew the humiliation Peter Obi suffered in PDP before cross-carpeting

On Thursday, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike vowed to offer “logistics support” for Peter Obi’s campaigning for president of the Labour Party (LP) within the state.

Wike added that Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, possesses all the necessary qualities to lead Nigeria. At the site of the Nkpolu-Oroworokwo Flyover ceremony in Port Harcourt, the state capital, the Rivers governor informed the LP presidential candidate of this.

“Each time you want to campaign in the state, let me know, all the logistics support, we will give to you,” Wike told Obi.

As a prerequisite for supporting the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential nominee, Atiku Abubakar, Wike, and four other governors have been demanding for months that Iyorchia Ayu resign as PDP national chairman.

It is unclear whether Wike and his allies will support Obi or Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the fight for Aso Rock’s top post, which experts and sharp watchers have described as a three-horse race, despite the fact that they have not been seen to support Atiku.

Wike declared that even though he was aware of the humiliation Obi endured before defecting from the PDP for the Labour Party, he would stay in the party and root out the “armed robbers.”

“I know the humiliation you suffered. Nobody will hear what you pass through and stay at the party but I will not leave. I will stay and fight.

“I won’t leave this house. I will never allow armed robbers to take over this house. I will stay and chase away armed robbers.

“So, thank God because if you have not left, you would not have realized your ambition to be able to save Nigeria,” Wike told Obi.

Meanwhile, a former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has described the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, as a danger to look out for in the coming 2023 elections.

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Fayose said Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party were cancers to the Peoples Democratic Party in the elections.

He said this when he appeared on Channels TV’s ‘Politics Today’, Thursday night, which was monitored by our correspondent.

According to him, although he didn’t believe Obi could garner the 25% of the total votes required, he didn’t believe his party could win the South-West nor the South-East.

“I am a PDP member;  I’m a leader in this party, but I’ve always said to you; you can’t survive a storm if you hide the truth. Obi is a danger to watch out for. I don’t believe Obi will make 25% in two-thirds of 24 states. I don’t believe Obi will make 25%. I am not against Obi, I love him and he’s a very vibrant leader.

But let me now say, Obi is more of chronic cancer to the PDP. There’s no denying it.

Let me give you my analysis. In the South-West here, people might not like to hear that, they might say Fayose is this; I don’t see how the PDP will win in the South-West. Anybody deceiving us can continue to deceive us. I don’t see how the PDP will win in the South-East. The South-South will be a combination of all interests.”

Since neither the PDP nor the APC had ever chosen a candidate from the North-West, Fayose continued, the votes would be split in the North. He also added that the presence of Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, would make winning the Northeast challenging.