PDP will suffer if I leave the party - Governor Wike

• Governor Nyesom Wike has bragged about his level of importance to PDP

• He stated that he is an asset to the opposition party

• Nyesom Wike is the Rivers State governor

Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike has boasted that if he leaves the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) the political party will suffer.

He made the statement on Monday, May 24, less than a week after Governor Ben Ayade dumped the opposition for the APC.

“If I leave PDP tomorrow, the party will suffer… Some members of PDP NWC are tax collectors. I did not say that all the members of NWC are tax collectors but some of them and I stand by my words,” the governor said.

Wike also fired shots at former Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State.

“Babangida Aliyu is a mole in PDP. They get information from the PDP and send it to the ruling party. I am an asset to PDP if I leave the party today I will win the election in any party I find myself. There is no political detractor in Rivers PDP as long as the party is concerned. If there is any State PDP that is sure of winning the election, it’s Rivers State. Aliyu is a political liability to PDP.

“He is not an asset. He once said that the northern governors worked against Jonathan but some of the former PDP governors from the north denied it. I want to tell you that Aliyu opposed the election of Secondus as the National Chairman of PDP only to turn round to support Secondus when he was coasting to victory. How can a man who cannot organise ordinary Congress in his State ask PDP National Working Committee, NWC to suspend me?”