As the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party continues to linger, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has said that members of the party who think they have the numbers to manipulate and take everything should know the time is coming when they would account for their actions.
Wike stated this at the inauguration of Emohua campus of Rivers State University, and the flag-off of staff quarters, performed by Seyi Makinde, Governor of Oyo State on Wednesday.
He said, “That is why I am telling the people there, look, it cannot work. You can’t take everything. If you take everything, it will purge you. So, better do the right thing now.
“Don’t sit there and think that you can muscle me and you can do everything, you can manipulate anything. You can think you have the number to make sure you take everything, but the time is coming when you will account for it.”
The Rivers State governor said the delivery of quality projects by him and his colleague governors would serve the PDP well in their respective states, adding that it would be wrong for PDP states that have failed to provide good governance to solicit for votes from the electorate.
“If any PDP State is not doing well, don’t think you will be voted for because APC is not doing well. If PDP state, for example , if in Rivers State we didn’t do well, then you’ll say because APC did not do well at the national, then the people will vote for us. They’ll tell you PDP you didn’t do well in Rivers State. People don’t understand that. And that is why the party should respect us and know that we are the ones campaigning for the party. Because we have what to use to campaign,” Wike said
Governor Makinde, performing the inauguration of the campus and flag-off of the staff quarters, said that such multi-campus of a university would promote quality education, expand the scope of learning, and open up access to tertiary education.
“If children are doing all of these, I think what Nigeria needs are children. So my brother (Wike) you can be rest assured that Nigeria appreciates you.
“Even the fight that we lost. We did not lose with our heads bowed. We stood for the truth and for what is good for the country. We will continue to fight for our space within the PDP. We will fight for what is good for our people,” Makinde said.