Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has advised Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders against considering expelling the G-5 governors.
Wike claimed that no one in the party had the authority to evict the G-5 governors, also known as the Integrity Group members, from the house they had worked so hard to build.
The governor emphasised that PDP leaders’ mistreatment of Integrity Group members will only exacerbate the ongoing turmoil in the party.
Wike said, “Nobody can drive us from this house we have built. All of us will fight here.
“So, if anybody thinks that you can just sit in your house and dish out orders, it will not work.
“The house will collapse on you. So, you better think twice.”
On Tuesday, Wike addressed the crowd at the Mgbuodohia Community Primary School site where he had just begun work on the Mgbuodohia Road in Rumuolumene Town of the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area.
The governor clarified that his concern for the PDP was what led him to make his remark about former President Olusegun Obasanjo endorsing Peter Obi rather than his former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
He claimed that Obasanjo was in a better position to confidently ask Nigerians for support because he had served as President on the PDP platform for eight years with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as his Vice President.
He claimed that if Obasanjo could not support his former deputy, it merely demonstrated that there was a fundamental problem that should worry PDP members.
He said: “I meant no bad. I’m only worried as a prominent PDP member. A man who loves PDP should be worried. I was not mocking anybody. I was merely worried.
“My prayer was, look, let Obasanjo remain quiet and not say anything. That was all my prayer, but my prayer didn’t work.
“My prayer was that if this man makes any statement, it will indict us because he was president under the PDP for eight years, and he worked with our presidential candidate.
“And the campaign of our presidential council is that our presidential candidate during the eight years did very well, with experience.”
He emphasised that something must be seriously wrong for Obasanjo to have chosen to support Obi over his former deputy.
