{"id":61170,"date":"2018-03-11T05:21:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T04:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=61170"},"modified":"2018-03-11T05:21:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T04:21:20","slug":"no-governor-can-hijack-the-structures-of-pdp-says-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/no-governor-can-hijack-the-structures-of-pdp-says-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"No governor can hijack the structures of PDP says Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has stated that no single<br \/>\ngovernor can hijack the structures of the Peoples Democratic Party<br \/>\n(PDP), saying those making insinuations to that effect are economical with<br \/>\nthe truth.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a special appearance on Channels Television Sunrise Daily<br \/>\nat the Government House, Port Harcourt,<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_434878231\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span>, Governor Wike said all<br \/>\ngovernors are equal and work in unity for the stability of the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Wike stated that no governor can control party affairs in another<br \/>\nstate, which is not within his jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>He said: All governors are equal in the party. There is no single<br \/>\nGovernor that can finance a political party as big as the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on comments credited to Former President Olusegun Obasanjo,<br \/>\nGovernor Wike said the former leader has left the PDP and destroyed his<br \/>\nmembership card. He wondered why the Former President is so interested in<br \/>\ndevelopments within the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>The governor noted that the stability of the political party is not<br \/>\nattained by financial muscle, but by the cooperation of all members.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, the governor said that the Independent National<br \/>\nElectoral Commission (INEC) under the present circumstances lack the<br \/>\ncapacity to conduct credible elections.<\/p>\n<p>He said beyond mere rhetoric, INEC should take concrete steps to convince<br \/>\nNigerians that they will improve on the conduct of elections.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Wike said that the first step that INEC should take is to<br \/>\ntransparently investigate the printing of Fake INEC result sheets by<br \/>\nRivers APC chieftains.<\/p>\n<p>The governor added that INEC should further explain how the Police got<br \/>\noriginal result sheets with same serial number of the Rivers East<br \/>\nSenatorial District election, where INEC declared Senator George Sekibo<br \/>\nwinner, only for the police to tender a different result, relied upon by<br \/>\nthe court to declare APC winner in that election.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the re-ordering of election sequence by the National<br \/>\nAssembly, Governor Wike said that he believes it is not targeted at the<br \/>\nPresident as some APC leaders have argued.<\/p>\n<p>On projects delivery in Rivers State, Governor Wike maintained that he<br \/>\nhas instituted a system to do away with the era of abandoned projects<br \/>\nwhich he inherited from his predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the State Government has reached out to all the 23 Local<br \/>\nGovernment Areas with meaningful projects and in other cases, he has<br \/>\ncompleted projects abandoned by the Amaechi administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am guided to execute projects that will be completed<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_434878232\"><span class=\"aQJ\">in four years<\/span><\/span>. I<br \/>\nwill not start any project that will be abandoned&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that his administration is actively promoting women<br \/>\nparticipation in government and also empowering women. The governor noted<br \/>\nthat N500million has been set aside as an empowerment scheme for Rivers<br \/>\nwomen.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated that he has not been reached through official channels on<br \/>\nthe visit of the President. He noted that the communication line between<br \/>\nthe Presidency and the Rivers State Government is not through a press<br \/>\nstatement issued by Femi Adesina.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are sayimg that the President is coming to commiserate with the<br \/>\nfamilies of the people who died on 1st January, 2018, I have no problems<br \/>\nwith that. Since 1st January, 2018, nobody has called to commiserate with<br \/>\nthe Rivers State Government. When the<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_434878233\"><span class=\"aQJ\">January 1<\/span><\/span>attack happened, APC<br \/>\nleaders politicised the attack &#8220;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor noted that for close to three years, Rivers State has not<br \/>\nbenefitted from the APC Federal Government. He informed that the Ogoni<br \/>\nclean up has remained in the realm of rhetoric, while the Bodo-Bonny Road<br \/>\nis about to be abandoned. He stressed that the East West road, the Port<br \/>\nHarcourt International Airport and other Federal Projects have been left<br \/>\nunattended to, pointing out that in the coming days, political flag off<br \/>\nand promises will be heightened around the neglected projects to hoodwink<br \/>\nNigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Wike later took the ChannelsTelevision Sunrise Daily Crew on a<br \/>\ntour of selected projects in Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\">\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>Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has stated that no single governor can hijack the structures of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying those making insinuations to that effect are&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":45017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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