THE GUARDIAN
Warns against alleged plot to impose Melaye as Kogi guber candidate
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has urged opposition parties to allow the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership to choose the leadership of the National Assembly because it is their entitlement.
He urged the minority in both chambers of the National Assembly to form a robust opposition to challenge the ruling party.
Wike, who spoke during an interview in Port Harcourt, yesterday, said Rivers State lawmakers would not be part of such disruptive scheme.
He said though he is not a member of APC, prominent members of the party interested in the office of the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives have reached out to him to indicate their interest.
“People have come to see me. Wase Ahmed Idris has come, Godswill Akpabio has come, David Umahi has come, Uzor Kalu has called me on phone from U.S severally. And what am I saying? I’m not from their party, but first of all, democracy entails that the majority should have their way.
“I have been hearing and reading where people are saying that the opposition parties are meeting to take over the leadership of the National Assembly. They won’t take it, it’s not possible. Even me, I will not support that.
“I will not support that kind of move where you want to takeover the leadership of the National Assembly as an opposition, I won’t do that. There are so many selfish politicians, I’m not one of them.”
He, however, advised the national leadership of the APC to consider the diversity and complexity of the Nigerian State in determining its preferred candidates for the offices of the Senate president and Speaker of the House of Representatives…
