Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike wants Nigerians to stop describing him as a presidential aspirant but as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for the 2023 general elections.
Wike, who is one of the many other aspirants vying for the presidential ticket of the PDP, sees himself as the candidate of the party, as he says none of the other aspirants would be able to defeat him.
The major opposition party’s primaries will be held on May 29, 2023.
But Wike, at a special thanksgiving service on Sunday to mark last Friday’s Supreme Court judgement that returned 17 oil wells to Rivers State, told the Bishop of Saint Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, Port Harcourt, to refer to him as the presidential candidate of the PDP.
Wike said, “My Lord Bishop, you said I am a presidential aspirant, I am not. I am the candidate for PDP. Rivers State has come of age. I will win and I will win and I will win this election.
“Even those of you who don’t believe, it is unfortunate for you. If you like, those of you who said you are delegates from Rivers State, vote for another person. Your vote is in vain because no aspirant will defeat me in this election. Not one.
“Wherever they are, I don’t give a damn. Whatever conspiracy; whether you are National Working Committee, it is your business. All those people who are fighting me, are having problems. You think it is my mouth; fight me, you fight yourself.
“I am happily going everywhere, campaigning and enjoying my life and you are suffering from high blood pressure. I don’t go with any doctor, but they are going with their own doctors because they don’t know what will happen.
“I have no media team, I have no strategy team, the only media team I have is God. That is the only thing I have; I don’t have any other thing. All those who are moving, they say they are North, they are South, they are East, they are West; they should have known my history well and have known Rivers State.
“We don’t put up our hands and fail. All those conspirators, they know that they have already failed.”