{"id":94691,"date":"2022-05-08T10:27:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T09:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=94691"},"modified":"2022-05-08T10:27:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T09:27:43","slug":"its-baffling-apc-aspirants-want-to-continue-buharis-legacy-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/its-baffling-apc-aspirants-want-to-continue-buharis-legacy-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s baffling APC aspirants want to continue Buhari\u2019s legacy \u2013Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has wondered what good works President Muhammadu Buhari has done that presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress are promising to consolidate.<\/p>\n<p>Wike, a Peoples Democratic Party presidential aspirant, said Nigerians were under the yoke of APC maladministration with intractable insecurity situation that has crippled the economy and increased hunger.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State on Friday when he met with Governor Douye Diri at the Government House, Wike said God and Nigerians would forbid such successor to emerge, because the country must be freed from the festering insecurity, hunger, poverty and dwindling economic fortunes of Nigeria and its people.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement issued by Kelvin Ebiri, media aide to the governor and made available to newsmen in Port Harcourt.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wike said, \u201cIt is most unfortunate when I hear people declaring (intention to be president) under APC and saying they want to continue the good job of Mr President \u2013 the good job of people dying every day, the good job of naira falling every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel so ashamed that we have got to the level of sycophancy where people will come and say I want to continue the good job of Buhari. What is the good job of Buhari \u2013\u00a0 hunger, poverty, insecurity, economy falling?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe that somebody will come out in today\u2019s Nigeria and say I want to continue where Mr Buhari has stopped. May God never allowed that evil to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wike described himself as the most courageous leader who could lead Nigeria out of its present woes.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHe urged his Bayelsa State counterpart to support his presidential bid, saying he was contesting on behalf of the two sister states.<\/p>\n<p>In his response, Diri described Wike as a homegrown politician who understood the contending issues both in the South-South region, pledging that he would support his ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Diri said, \u201cYou could have as well say this is our state, I don\u2019t need to come and campaign in Bayelsa; I don\u2019t even need to come and see the delegates in Bayelsa, my brother governor is there, he will do it for me. 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