In an interview that The Sun saw, Dan Nwanyanwu, the chairman of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), emphasized that Wike plans to run against President Tinubu in 2027 and offered evidence to support his claim.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
He said that he knows this is a game without trying to sound pretentious. He stated he can never be incorrect since he has been at the top of the leadership ladder since 2005 and understands the gauge. He provided instances of Wike’s statements in which he made several promises.
Nwanyanwu recounted how Wike said, “Anybody who emerges from this convention, I will support him wholly; I have nothing to do with APC; I have malaria, and you say I should go to cancer, God forbid.”
Nwanyanwu made the comment that character is essential because he firmly believes that politics must have a moral component.
He went on to say that Wike often talks about his structure and that he has both the PDP’s national and Rivers structures. He questioned the purpose of the structures, claiming that someone else had them before Wike arrived.
Quoting Nwanyanwu, “If I made a comment that he would run, and he doesn’t want to run, let him leave the leadership of the party that is in his pocket, the caretaker committee in Rivers PDP he is holding up.”
I’ve never seen this happen in politics before. Almost everybody in the PDP had let it go. We had our quarterly meeting with INEC last month or so, and this matter came up: that INEC please go and conduct elections in the vacant 27 seats.”
“INEC, of course, would adjourn in so many cases. Everybody became very serious in the middle, then everything calmed down.”
“INEC chairman said, Ok, PDP representative, what do you have to say? He said, ‘I have nothing to say.’ This is a party that lost 27 members. He doesn’t want to say anything about it, or those who want to condemn it at once speaking about it.”
“Others who want to contest are the ones speaking about it. I don’t know the kind of evidence you want. I have said so; if he’s not going, let us wait; you will bring me back in your studio and tell me.”CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
