Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said that the electorate in his state will use the upcoming elections to punish the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national leadership for abandoning them during the October and November 2022 flooding incidents.Information Guide Nigeria
Wike made the remarks at the Community Secondary School in Akinima town yesterday, during the Rivers State PDP campaign kick-off event in Ahoada West Local Government Area.
The governor noted that the flooding catastrophe affected towns in Abua/Odual, Ahoada West, and Ahoada East local government areas, submerging houses, displacing people, and disrupting their socioeconomic lives.
The governor noted that the flooding catastrophe affected towns in Abua/Odual, Ahoada West, and Ahoada East local government areas, submerging houses, displacing people, and disrupting their socioeconomic lives.
He recalled that during the period the flood lasted, the national leadership of PDP refused to visit the communities as a way of identifying with Rivers people when it mattered most.
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The Rivers Governor said even though the PDP national leadership refused to identify with the Rivers communities, they gladly visited flood-impacted communities in other states, and identified with them, which could be interpreted as hatred for Rivers State.NYSC portal
For such hatred, and the mindset that Rivers State does not matter, Governor Wike said the electorate would use the power of their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) to ‘pepper’ the PDP national leadership in the forthcoming elections.
“You had a problem, a major problem. Ahoada West, Ahoada East, and Abua-Odual, had a major flooding problem. After they’ll say we are at the same party. Is there anybody from the national of our party that came to visit Ahoada West, Ahoada East, and Abua?
“But they went to other states, which means they don’t like us. If somebody says he doesn’t like you, will you force yourself on them?”
Wike reassured the people of Ahoada West that his administration would deliver to them a fully reconstructed government secondary school in Okarki.
He said the contract for the project was awarded long ago and paid for in full but their sons who got the contract failed to deliver on schedule. He assured it will be re-awarded and completed before his tenure ends on May 29.JAMB Result
“What I want to advise you this time is, don’t allow those ballot box snatchers in All Progressives Congress to try it again. Luckily this election is not election of snatching ballot boxes or paper. It is election that will be done electronically and transmitted electronically. All we need from you is to mobilise your people unit by unit.”
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