Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has called on the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar to call his loyalists to order.
The governor said that Atiku’s loyalists have been concocting all sorts of lies against him, including the report that he went to court to challenge the outcome of the party’s presidential primary.
Wike who said that he would have gone to court if he had a reason to, explained that the matter was a pre-election matter with a two-weeks timeline to seek legal redress.
He accused Atiku’s loyalists of filing the suit in order to damage his name.
“I want to let Nigerians know that I did not go to court. I don’t know anything about the so called suit. I did not ask anyone to file any suit for me. I don’t know the lawyers. Am I a kid to be filing a suit at this time. I had 14 days after the primary within which to have filed any suit. I didn’t do that then, is it two months after primary I will file a suit?
“Just yesterday they came up with the claim that I ordered my Chief Security Officer to pull down PDP flag in Government House. This is all false, it’s all propaganda. Some people are trying to use me to win the election. Please disregard all these lies”
The governor also said that the party was not ready to win election, calling on Atiku to send those with him in Abuja back to their homes to campaign for him.
He said that he was busy delivering dividends of democracy to his state while urging the former vice president to allow peace to reign.
He said that if Atiku’s loyalists continue to attack him, he will be forced to respond after the commissioning of projects, and that then, no one should ask him not talk, stressing that “Enough is Enough”
