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Obidient Wike Insists On “Logistics Support” For Peter Obi

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Governor of Rivers State, Barr. Nyesom Wike has pledged “logistics support” for the campaigns of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi in the state.

Wike said this known on Friday night at a banquet organised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers for the PDP Group of Five Governors (PDP G5 Governors) who were in Port Harcourt for the party’s state-level campaign flag-off on Saturday.

The Rivers governor had on Thursday made the pledge to Obi, who commissioned the Nkpolu-Oroworokwo Flyover in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

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Wike, a PDP chieftain, had also said Obi, a former governor of Anambra State has all the characteristics to lead Nigeria.

The Rivers governor has since attracted criticisms from certain quarters for his support for Obi at the expense of his party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

However, on Friday night, Wike said, “They said I said I’m supporting Obi, I have no regret to say: Obi is a former governor, if he is coming to Rivers State to campaign, I will give him logistics support, I will give him security.

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“A former governor? Should I say I will not give him vehicles? I will not give him security? I won’t do that; I must give him logistics support.”

The former minister, however, said Labour Party can’t get any of the seats in the state in next year’s election.

Wike also challenged his counterparts in the Niger Delta zone to account for the huge sums of monies received by them as backlog for the 13% oil derivation since 1999, which was approved and paid by President Muhammadu Buhari.

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The governor told attendees at the banquet that while he can point to the projects executed by his administration with the monies in Rivers, some of his colleagues cannot show any proof.

For months, Wike and four other PDP have demanded the resignation of Iyorchia Ayu as PDP national chairman as a precondition to support Atiku.

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