The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has disclosed his desire to run for president in 2023 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), claiming that he is the ideal individual to depose the current All Progressives Congress (APC).
Wike made the disclosure when he paid a visit to his Benue State counterpart, Governor Samuel Ortom, at the Government House in Makurdi, the state capital, on Sunday.
He said he was announcing his intention to run for president for the first time in Benue.
“To remove APC from power, I’m the person who can tell them enough is enough. We must take this power and I’m ready to take it for PDP.
God is with us that’s why APC keeps failing everyday,” he said.
The presidential hopeful who urged stakeholders to give him their mandate and not to sell their votes, assured that he has the capacity “to face this evil government.”
Wike queried some founding fathers who ran away from the PDP and still want to be recognised, saying: “by the time you ran away, you sold your share as a founding father so you can no longer retain your position of founding fathers.
“I stood for this party. I worked for this party since 1998. I have nowhere to run to and that’s why anything that happens to this party I take it personally. I have never relented.
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“In 2015, those who ran away made us lose election. Today, they are crying but some of us stood and said PDP will not die.
“Some people want to use Nigeria to buy back their personal business. They talk about private sector. Mention the private business that survive. Is it banks that your father had? Everybody is an employer of labour. Even in my house I have 50 people who feast from me.
“They should stop deceiving us. I have performed as a governor and carry my shoulders high anywhere. I have the capacity to face this evil government. Just give me the mandate. I will speak the truth to power and nothing but the truth. I have the capacity to move this country forward,” he said.
Governor Wike promised that if elected as president, security would be his topmost priority.
