APC leader: “We are prepared to welcome Wike into our party.”

When it comes to receiving former state governor Nyesom Wike, the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has stated that it is willing to do so.

Chief Tony Okocha, a senior member of the APC and a former chief of staff at the Rivers State Government House, made this statement at a news conference in Port Harcourt.

This came as rumors surfaced that Wike could defect to the APC from the PDP.

Wike has the right to join any party, according to Okocha, the coordinator of the BAT-Vanguard, also known as the South-South Bola Ahmed Tinubu Vanguard, which was disbanded.

He noted that some people seek to reap where they did not plant and that the role Wike played in Tinubu becoming the current president of Nigeria cannot be overstated.

Okocha stated, “We are noticing that some persons who abandoned Tinubu when Tinubu needed them most and voyaged outside the shores are now relying on their personal relationships one way or the other to begin to make some sense of entitlement. 

“That they are entitled to whatever. In the leadership of the Tinubu family in Rivers State, we are at peace 100 per cent with His Excellency, Barr Nyesom Wike, the immediate past Governor of Rivers State as our leader.

“He who pays the Piper dictates the tune. When it was difficult, even when the national body could not oblige us with funds for the national rally here, the magic was done by somebody.”

Additionally, he exhorted the former governor of Rivers State to join the APC immediately in order to benefit from his efforts to elect Tinubu president.

“Our demand is that nobody should rob Peter to pay Paul. Our own share of the booty given to us should be handed over to His Excellency Nyesom Wike. 

“We are confident that as soon as it gets to him, he knows those who worked for Tinubu, and it will get to us. 

“It is only natural, that is how it should go, ” he added. 

In response, he said that the PDP’s Atiku Abunakar’s aide’s claim that Wike was not poisoned but rather had consumed too much alcohol was an act of disdain on the part of the party leadership.

According to him, “The leadership of the PDP in Nigeria does not appreciate the influence and pedigree embedded in Wike. 

“A man goes to thank God for surviving poisoning and somebody said it was not poison but as a result of excessive alcohol. 

“It does appear to us that the PDP does not know what they have in Wike. So we are asking and calling on Wike to come over to Macedonia and lead us.”