I was never against Peter Obi, Tinubu – Wike

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has rebuffed the claims that he was against the Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress during their presidential campaign.

According to the PDP Chieftain, he couldn't have stood against them because he believed power should be rotated from the North to the Southern part of the country.

He noted that he was an “apostle” of the power shift to the southern region of Nigeria as he spoke during the commissioning of the Chokocho-Igbodo Road in the Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.

The governor stressed that he owed nobody an apology for supporting power rotation to the South.

“Whether you voted for Labour, I have no problem with you. Whether you voted for APC, I have no problem with you. That is what we have argued for: that the north has had it for eight years. Therefore the south must be there for eight years.

“As far as I am concerned, anybody from the south, that is my position. That is what we agreed in the Integrity Group that we must make sure that the south emerges as the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“Each time I went for a campaign, nobody has ever heard me criticise Obi. Nobody has ever heard me criticize Asiwaju. I owe nobody any apology that people voted for the southern presidency,” he said.

NBA