The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has alleged that governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) met and plotted to stop the emergence of Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2019 but that the plot was aborted by some of the governors.
He said he agreed to the plot at the time because it was not his duty to help the ruling APC to which Messrs Lawan and Gbajabiamila belong, but that he has no reason to start now.
Wike made the revelation on Friday during the commissioning of the Rivers State Legislative Quarters in Port Harcourt by Gbajabiamila.
He said the same governors again betrayed him during the tussle for the position of the minority leader of the House.
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PDP had nominated Kingsley Chinda (PDP, Rivers), an ally of Wike, as minority leader, but Gbajabiamila announced Ndudi Elumelu (PDP, Delta) for the position.
He said:
I have no regret not helping your party that time, even now. My business is to make your party uncomfortable. So I was supporting— it was Rivers State lodge in Abuja, where we plotted ‘you should not go’. We plotted but PDP governors sold me out. They supported you, even when we agreed that ‘Femi’ should not go, Lawan should not go.
As a party, they went back and supported you. That is why you made Ndudi Elumelu the Minority Leader. We wrote you a letter that it was not what we wanted.
Wike also mocked the PDP for threatening to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over insecurity. He stated that the lawmakers have no guts to proceed with the impeachment threat.
The lawmakers of the main opposition party had before embarking on holiday recently given President Buhari six weeks to fix the general insecurity in the country or risk impeachment.
Wike said:
People don’t like the truth, but the truth must be told at all times. They are saying they will impeach Buhari. They don’t have the balls. They don’t have it. Ordinary to override…….let us see who will stand up and say, Mr Speaker. They think they can use Nigeria, Wayo. Things you know you cannot do, why are you saying it out.
Responding before commissioning the Legislative Quarters, Gbajabiamila said the experience of Wike affirmed the saying that “in politics, there is no permanent friend or enemy, only that permanent interest.”
The Speaker added:
And by God’s grace, this journey you have started, which you and I know shall get to the permanent site.
