{"id":101399,"date":"2022-11-16T17:25:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=101399"},"modified":"2022-11-16T17:25:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:25:12","slug":"wike-apologises-to-oshiomhole-for-supporting-obasekis-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/wike-apologises-to-oshiomhole-for-supporting-obasekis-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Apologises To Oshiomhole For Supporting Obaseki\u2019s Re-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1749669084858945623\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nGovernor Nyesom Wike of River State on Wednesday apologised to former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, for supporting the re-election of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Wike tendered the apology to Oshiomhole at the inauguration of the Rumuepirikom Flyover in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the state which the ex-APC chairman commissioned.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wike, he has learnt and the past should remain in the past.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cI use this opportunity to apologise to you. I came to Edo State to make sure your candidate didn\u2019t win election. I said you won\u2019t win and you didn\u2019t win. That assignment has been done and we now know who is who,\u201d Wike told a smiling Oshiomhole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now friends, let bygones be bygones,\u201d Wike, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) strongman told the ex-APC national chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to sincerely apologise to you. Each time you learn. People will praise you when you do for them. When you say, they are wrong, they begin to say all sorts of things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure those of them in my party before cannot do anything without Wike but because I said let the right thing be done, let agreement be agreement, I have now become an enemy. These are people who are praising me morning and night,\u201d he maintained, noting that he stands on equity, fairness and justice.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, Oshiomhole lauded Wike for the many \u201cbeautiful projects\u201d in Rivers, saying results don\u2019t lie.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, executive exchanges have a way of communicating to the people that political divide is not war.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cI listened to you (Wike) attentively and you said Peter Obi is coming tomorrow. I want to congratulate you for that because I also invited Peter Obi when I was governor and those executive exchanges have a way of communicating to our people that political divide is not war,\u201d Oshiomhole stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also invited governors from other states to Edo the last one week before my tenure as you said, for them to see what I was able to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI promise that when I get back to Abuja, I will use my mouth to talk what my eyes saw. The flyover I saw is not a culvert. There are people who commissioned culverts and said they were flyovers but what I am seeing here is a beautiful flyover which you will see anywhere in the world,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nOshiomhole, who was Edo governor between 2008 and 2016, handed over to Obaseki who was then a member of the APC.<\/p>\n<p>The two men, however, fell apart due to intra-party squabbles and Obaseki couldn\u2019t secure APC ticket to return to office in 2020 gotten by Osagie Ize-Iyamu.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki moved to PDP and joined forces with Wike as seen by his many visits to the Rivers strongman\u2019s residence during the crisis preceding the Edo State Governorship Election in 2020.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Nyesom Wike of River State on Wednesday apologised to former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, for supporting the re-election of Governor Godwin Obaseki of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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