The Street Journal
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has taken a swipe at a former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, for quitting the Peoples Democratic Party a few days before the presidential primary of the opposition party.
Wike, who is running for president on the platform of the PDP where Obi was also an aspirant, said the ex-Anambra governor had not won an election since he left the All Progressives Grand Alliance, the party under which Obi became governor.
Wike, while featuring on Politics Today, a current affairs programme on Channels Television, on Thursday, 26 May, expressed doubts about Obi getting the presidential ticket of another party.
Obi had on Wednesday resigned his PDP membership to the surprise of many. The presidential aspirant was rumoured to be heading to the Social Democratic Party.
Reacting to Obi’s exit, Wike said, “So, Peter Obi leaving the party is not surprising to me. I know and he knows that there was no way he would have won the presidential primary. Forget about what his campaign DG, Doyin Okupe, said. How would he have won? I went to Anambra and told them (delegates) that, ‘don’t waste your vote.’ Since Peter Obi left APGA then as a governor, he has never won an election. That is not even the issue…
