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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said that nobody can separate him from his allies, Governors Samuel Ortom, Okezie Ikpeazu, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and Seyi Makinde, over their position against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 polls.
Wike, who stated this while commissioning the Osisioma Ngwa Flyover along the Port Harcourt – Enugu expressway in Aba, Abia State, said his relationship with Ikpeazu has come a long way, stressing that he feels proud to associate with the Abia Governor.
Wike said; “When I read the pages of newspapers, they say some people are making attempts to break my rank, I say to myself that they don’t understand the modus operandi 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 Makinde, if you like go and meet Ortom and if you like go and meet Ugwuanyi. I pity them. People think that relationship can be bought with money.
“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. They hate us because we are standing on agreement. 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.
“Look at what they said, they said Ikpeazu 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 we are saying is that when you are sharing Senate president to so and so person, which one have you given to Abia.”
He lauded Ikpeazu for changing the narrative about the infrastructural development of the state.
Earlier, Ikpeazu has stated that the commissioning of the flyover had given him much joy as his opponents had doubted the possibility of completing the project.
Describing Wike as the father and mother of all flyovers in the country , the Abia Governor disclosed that he deliberately chose Wike to commission the flyover as no other person was qualified to do it than the Rivers Governor.
“Our desire to construct this flyover at this point was borne out of our conviction that we will ease the movement of personnel and goods out and in of Aba , being our commercial nerve centre in Abia State.
“People were spending 2 to 3 hours at this junction trying to get into Aba, to get into the central market in the city and we decided to respond to that problem by providing this flyover. I thank God that today, this project has become a reality.”