From Okey Sampson, Umuahia
There is no respite yet in the crisis rocking the Peoples democratic Party (PDP) as Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has vowed to flog and crush his political enemies he tagged “small boys.”
Wike, who spoke in Aba, Abia State, yesterday, during the commissioning of Osisioma flyover, said one of his friends had asked him “to leave everything to God” (referring to Senator Iyorcha Ayu, national chairman of the party), but said he would never as God has given him all it takes to fight and defeat them.
The national chairman had dismissed the Rivers governor and governors in his camp as “children.” In a swift response, Wike said the “children” brought the former senator from the gutters and made him PDP national chairman last year.
“I was in the plane with him (Ikpeazu) and we were discussing. He said why not leave these people for God? But I told him why are you overcrowding God? God has given me what it takes to crush these people, for me to crush my enemies.
“Now that I know I have the capacity to flog these small boys, you want me to leave it for God? I won’t do that. I am going to flog them pepperly. When we start campaign, we will know who is who.”
Governor Wike maintained that PDP governors working with him were only demanding that the right things should be done in the party and agreement reached and respected.
“When I read on the pages of newspapers that some people are making attempts to break my rank, I say to myself that they don’t understand the modus oparandi of what we are doing.
“If they understand the modus oparandi of what we are doing, they won’t waste their time. If you like go and meet Ikpeazu, if you like go and meet Seyi (Makinde), if you like go and meet Ortom( Samuel), and if you like go and meet Ugwuanyi (Ifeanyi), I pity them. People think that relationship can be bought with money.”
Governor Wike asserted that no propaganda could weaken his political capacity to deliver a win for whoever Rivers State decides to support with votes in the 2023 general election.
“Look, nobody should bother about any abuse on me. I’m too much for it. I don’t even know when I’m abused. If they like, let them put everything on social media and abuse me. At the end, we will know who is relevant or not at the appropriate time .
“Politics is not to go on the pages of newspapers. Politics is not to go and buy slot on television and speak. It is who will deliver at the appropriate time. That is what is key. If you like, abuse me from now until tomorrow, it’s your business.
“What is important is when the time comes, we will know. When the jungle matures, we will know those who can stand crisis. We will know those who have capacity to say this is where our State will go. Ikpeazu is one of those governors who have capacity and will decide where the people of Abia State will go.”
He emphasised that the governors who some forces in PDP were fighting, were the ones who are projecting the party, and have consolidated the goodwill of the electorate that would translate to electoral fortune.
“Look at what they said, they said your governor (Abia State) is a boy. They said Wike is a boy, Seyi is a boy, Ortom is a boy, Ugwuanyi is a boy. But see what the boys are doing. Tell them that as men, they should show us what they have done.
“Because we say look, agreement is agreement. You told me you will do this, now it’s time for you to do it, you don’t want to do it. Is it good ?
“Now, what’s the problem, we say, my brother, you have shared and given to Atiku; you shared and given Okowa, you shared and given Saraki, which one have you given to Ikpeazu? What Ikpeazu and co are saying is that when you are sharing Senate president to so and so person, which one have you given to Abia.”
Governor Wike noted that because the Abia State governor had submitted himself to God, whatever he does has continued to prosper.
He commended Ikpeazu for constructing the flyover at Osisioma which he said would help to change the economic narrative of the state.