The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has appealed to Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike to let him to win Rivers State in the presidential election though the Labour Party will assistance PDP in the governorship election.
Obi produced the appeal in the course of the commissioning of Nkpolu Oroworukwo flyover on Thursday in Port Harcourt.
Obi stated he will not challenge the governor more than the governorship seat in the state but Governor Wike ought to also leave the federal election for him.
According to Obi, the interest of Rivers State will be adequately protected when he becomes president.
Obi stated:
” I will speak to my men and women and we will negotiate. If we leave the state for him (Wike) he will leave the centre for us. We will negotiate it.”
Referring to Wike, Obi continued:
“We will not quarrel with you. Please give us this one (centre) and collect the other one (state). I will accommodate them ( Rivers state) in the other one.”
“Remember this agreement today. I’m kneeling down and begging, take this one (state) give me this one (centre). I assure you the one I will take, I will use it to make sure Rivers State becomes better and better.”
Obi at the starting of his speech had referred to the governorship candidate of the PDP in Rivers State as the “incoming governor.”
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