Politics
Why I Denied Atiku Use Of Stadium For Rally -Wike
Naija News reports that Wike opened up while speaking in Eleme during the state governorship rally.
Wike said, “They said they want to do rally, I said ok go and take Adokiye Amiesimaka stadium.
“I have given them this Amiesimaka last night. Some of these armed robbers thought that we wouldn’t know.
“Abiye Sekibo-led thugs last night to go to Trans Amadi, the land that belongs to Rivers State and brought bulldozers with Lee Meeba (former senator and member of the Atiku Campaign Council) to start grading that, that’s where they want to use for presidential rally tomorrow.
“I said no, go back to the stadium. I said you said you want the stadium, is that not so? You said you have people, is that not so?
“You must go there. You said you get people, is that not so? Go there.
“If you want me to go and clean it, I will go and clean it but for that stadium you just use it.”
The Rivers governor also mocked the National Chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, who in a bid to talk down on the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kano mistakenly said “PDP has brought shame on us.”
The governor, who signaled to the crowd to be silent and listen to the tape which he played over the microphone, said Ayu spoke “out of the abundance” of his heart.
Wike, who leads a faction of the party demanding that Ayu resign as national chairman, was however quick to dissociate the state chapter of the party from Ayu’s statement.
Quoting a Bible verse, the governor said, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
“Is that not anti-party? For us in Rivers State, our own party is a good party.”
He stressed that “Our own party is a party that has done Rivers State well.
“And we must vote our national assembly, our governorship, our house of Assembly as far as PDP is concerned.
“It’s their own party that has brought shame to them.
“Our own party in Rivers State has never brought shame to us.”
