The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has reacted to reports that he has been endorsed as the running mate of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2023 elections.
Wike’s reaction came on Tuesday at a stakeholders meeting of the Rivers State Chapter of the PDP in Port Harcourt.
At the meeting held at the Government House, he also confirmed that he has heard that he was even endorsed to be the running mate of any Northerner that emerges as candidate of the PDP.
But Wike said nothing can be father from the truth.
He said: “Please discountenance anything you’re seeing about being VP to this and that.
“Discountenance all those social media talk.”
Wike said members of the party in the southern region will speak in one voice and at the appropriate time about their decision on the forthcoming election.
He said: “The South will make a statement very soon and the day the South makes a statement, Nigeria will know that we are not joking.
“It is not to come out and say you are consulting.
“You say you’re consulting, yet you have declared.
“Is it not after consultations that you declare?”
On zoning, Wike said: “Those things are not necessary.
“What is necessary is that the party should be cohesive and to make sure the party gets it right.
“When you threaten that it must be North or threaten that it must be South, then you are not trying to make peace.”
The meeting had in attendance party executives, national and state assembly members, Local Government chairmen, cabinet members and other high-ranking members of the party.
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