Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Saturday said that stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the State will meet at the appropriate time and decide his successor.
He said not even him or any one single person has the monopoly to decide where the governorship position of the party will be zoned to.
Governor Wike made the assertion during the grand finale of the PDP local government campaign for the 17th April council election.
The event was held at State School 1, Bori, Khana Local Government Area.
The governor’s Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri, quoted him in a statement saying at the event:
“I don’t want to talk about politics of who is from here and who is not from there. At the appropriate time the PDP family will sit down, the leaders of the party will sit down and look at everything together and then take a decision, not one man and even me as a Governor can say this is where we are zoning it to.
“You cannot say that. It is not your father’s property. So nobody should panic. It is not for one man who thinks he owns Rivers State. Somebody said he is going to give the governorship slot to the Kalabaris, now it’s no longer to the Kalabaris, but to the riverine area.”
He reiterated that the All Progressives Congress-led federal government has failed Nigerians by not keeping to its social contract with the people of the country.
Wike called on Nigerians not to listen any longer to empty promises of APC politicians, “who made promises of ensuring that the Naira and the Dollar are equivalent, create jobs for the youths and contain insurgency, but failed to live up to their promises.”
He said, “Time has come when you make a promise to the people you must fulfill the promise. Time has come that we can no longer listen to empty promises of politicians like what the ruling party is doing today.
“When they came in 2015 they told Nigerians that the Naira and Dollar will be equal. N1 to 1dollar. Today what is the equivalent, N500 to 1Dollar. They said they will create jobs, today Nigeria has the highest unemployment rate in Africa 33 percent. While would there not be crisis. They said when they come they will make sure insurgency is stopped, see what we are passing through today in this country. Everyday, killing upon killing. So, they have failed us.”
Noting that the PDP remains the party to reckon with as it always kept to its promises with the people, Wike pointed out that their is no Local Government Area in the state that his administration has not impacted.