By John Owen Nwachukwu The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, has said that his visitation to Rivers State e...
By John Owen Nwachukwu
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter
Obi, has said that his visitation to Rivers State earlier last month was not
for a gang-up.
Following Governor Nyesom Wike’s arrival from Abuja after he
lost the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ticket to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Obi
was one of the prominent politicians that visited the Rivers State capital to
meet the Governor behind closed doors.
There were suggestions that the former Anambra Governor, who
dumped the PDP prior to the main opposition party’s presidential primaries, was
in Port Harcourt to form an alliance with Wike or to convince him to join the
Labour Party.
But Obi, while featuring on Arise TV’s Morning Show on
Wednesday, said he met Wike to discuss issues concerning the Port Harcourt
Port, pointing out that Wike is also his close friend.
According to him, as a Minister of Education, Wike helped
him with funds to resolve some financial issues in the educational sector when
he(Obi) was the Anambra State Governor.
“I met Governor Wike because he is the Governor of a state
that is creative enough to have a future,” Obi said.
“The Port in Port Harcourt can help decongest the Port in
Lagos and help to what I.want to do with the Port. We must generate the
appropriate revenue that we’re doing today.
“I didn’t go to see Wike to be another gang up or anything.
Notwithstanding anything, I and Wike have been very close and very cordial.
Everything I have invited him.
“Don’t forget that earlier this year I went to commission
things for him. We’re friends. He’s one of all those who even supported me when
I was Governor. He gave me…the Ministry of Education, when he was there had
issues with teachers and he came and supported me with the UBEC money and
everything.
“So, I’m going to visit every Governor to speak to them to
understand that we should build a better Nigeria.”
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