The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday vowed to resign from office if anyone could prove he promised to make him his successor.
Wike stated this at a state banquet dinner held to celebrate the conferment of a distinguished award on him by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The governor said it was not in his character to make a promise to help anyone and renege on it.
There were insinuations in the state early this year that Wike had anointed the state’s former Account-General, Siminalaye Fubara, who won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the state, as his successor next year.
He said: “God gives power. I challenge whoever will say he sat with me and I made a promise to him or her that the way things are going; he or she will be the next governor.
“If anybody can come out and challenge me, I will resign as governor of Rivers State.”
He also dedicated the award to God and the people of Rivers State.
He thanked the state legislature and the…
