Wike: Rivers people know our presidential candidate — I didn’t promise to speak on camera | TheCable
Samad UthmanNyesom Wike, Rivers governor, says he never promised to announce his preferred presidential candidate on live television., said he would start campaigning for a presidential candidate by January.
“From January next year, I will campaign to my people who they will vote for. So, all of you who have been suspects and have been saying all kinds of things and abusing me, wait. January has come,” he had said. While speaking during a Peoples Democratic Party campaign on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, Wike said he did not also promise to disclose the medium through which he would announce his preferred presidential candidate.“I never told anybody one day, I will bring a camera and announce to you this is who will go. I said I will tell Rivers people the candidate they will support,”“I did not tell you the method of saying it. I did not tell you I will bring live coverage and say it.
Amid the crisis, some PDP stakeholders, including five PDP governors — Wike, Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Samuel Ortom of Benue, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu — formed the Integrity Group, dubbed G5. The governors have also exempted themselves from the campaign of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP, ahead of the general election.
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