Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has stated that he and other Governors described as ‘boys’ by National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Senator Iyorchia Ayu will prove what they are capable of shortly.
Wike, who spoke in Abia State on Monday during a one-day official visit to commission some projects, including the newly completed Osisioma Interchange and Aba-Owerri road, wondered how the leadership of the PDP would sideline the Southern Governors in the distribution of political leadership and appointments.
He said: “I don’t associate myself with those that cannot show anything. I associate myself with those who have something to offer. I want to say without contradiction or any fear of favour that Ikpeazu is the man that knows what to do for his people and that is why I said that I will be with you anywhere that you are.
“I want to tell the people of Abia that they didn’t make any mistake by electing Ikpeazu as the governor of the state and I believe that the incoming governor of the state will build upon what Ikpeazu has done and is still doing.
“I and Ikpeazu have come a long way. People will not understand the relationship existing between both us. People think that they will buy the relationship between us with money, that is why when I look at the pages of newspapers to read that some people are making attempts to break my rank, I say that they don’t understand the modus operandi of what we are doing, because if they do, they will not waste their time to go and meet Ikpeazu, Seyi (Makinde), Samuel Ortom, Ugwuanyi.
“The people that they are fighting are those who are projecting their party. They said that Ikpeazu, Wike, Ugwuanyi, Ortom, Makinde are boys.
“But see what the boys are doing. Tell them to show us what they have done as men. They said that we are boys because we told them that they have to abide with the agreement that they have with us.
“They shared this one give Atiku. They shared this one give Saraki. They share this one give Okowa, which one did you give to Ikpeazu? What Ikpeazu is saying is that when you are sharing the position of Senate President, and Secretary to the Federal Government, which one have you given to the people of Abia?
“Nobody should bother with any abuses on me. We will soon know who is more relevant than each other at the appropriate time. Politics is not to go on pages of newspapers or buy airtime in broadcast media to talk. Politics is who will deliver at the appropriate time.
“We will know who is important when the jungle matures. We will know those that can stand crisis. We will know those that can face crisis and those who have the capacity to say that this is what our state will do. Ikpeazu is one of the governors that have the capacity to say that this is what his state will do.
“I am worried when I wake up and nothing has been said about me. It makes me happy when I am the subject of discussion in the newspapers and on television. I appeal that they shouldn’t stop. They should continue to talk about Wike.”
Credit: The Nigeria Lawyers