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Osita Chidoka – Atiku’s aide describes Wike’s action as morally inappropriate…. 

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday, shunned the governorship ambition of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Lagos State, Olajide Adediran, known as Jandor, by endorsing the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for a second term in office.

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Wike was the special guest of honour at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO), with the theme ‘Spring Forth, Stand Out’, which was held at Eko Hotel and Suites.

He also donated N300m to the conference.

According to Wike, Governor Sanwo-Olu’s performance in office has earned him a second term.

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He commended him for giving women the opportunity to serve in various capacities in the state, especially the judiciary.

“By the grace of God, you will be a second-term governor. Lagos State is doing better than other states in this country because Lagos has allowed women to participate in governance in various capacities.

“I am very happy to participate in this conference. I don’t play politics of ethnicity. Even if Sanwo-Olu is in my party but is not doing well, I wouldn’t have come. I do not regret saying I am in support of you,” Wike told Sanwo-Olu.

In his remarks, Sanwo-Olu commended the organisers of the conference for their positive contributions to the state.

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He urged the participants to vote for him for a second term in office, adding that they should not be deceived by anyone.

However, Gbenga Ogunleye, spokesman of Jandor Campaign Organisation, while speaking with the reporter said there was nothing like endorsement in Wike’s comment.

“It’s not an endorsement. You know, Wike has been inviting people from other political parties to commission projects in his state and he said the reason he is doing that is to let them see his performance,” he said.

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Osita Chidoka – Atiku’s aide describes Wike’s action as morally inappropriate 

A Special Adviser to the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Abubakar Atiku and the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, Osita Chidoka has described Governor Nyesom Wike’s endorsement of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state for a second term.

Chidoka made this assertion in an interview with Channels TV’s Politics Today on Tuesday.

According to Chidoka, the moral burden is more on Wike than the PDP, and the party needs to review his processes and procedures.

He said, “Governor Wike has the liberty to do most of the things he’s doing because he has no skin in the game.

“but it’s import to say that if he wants to support the presidential candidate of any party, he is free to do so but he has a moral responsibility not to be sitting on a PDP seat as a governor and be talking about other candidate.

“That moral burden is more on Wike than it’s on PDP to justify why he is taking that position for a party that has been good to him up to Local Government Chairman to being the governor of a state,” he said.

Speaking on the chairmanship tussle of the PDP, Chidoka stated that the disposition of Wike portends a risk for the next chairman of of the party.

According to Chidoka, Wike will still not be satisfied if the party fields a national chairman from the South.

He stated, “The discussion about whether the chairman of the party will leave has been a consistent conversation in PDP with Governor Wike.

“He wanted Makarfi to leave, he wanted Secondus to be chairman, Secondus became, he wanted him to leave at some point. He brought Sheriff as chairman of the PDP, he wanted him to leave and he went all the way to the Supreme Court.

“He brought Iyorchia Ayu as the chairman and now he wants him to leave. Even the next chairman is at risk if he continues to be the governor that at some point he may want the chairman to leave,” he said.

(Daily Trust/Vanguard)