Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Sule Lamido, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, Atiku Abubakar
A former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has dismissed Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike as a political emperor whose time will quickly be up.
Messrs Lamido and Wike are each chieftains of the opposition Peoples Democratic Occasion, albeit at the moment at cross functions. The Rivers governor is up in arms towards the get together’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar who’s Mr Lamido’s ally.
Mr Lamido throughout an interview on Channels TV on Tuesday was requested if Mr Wike’s present stance may damage the get together’s probabilities within the 2023 elections.
“Please depart Wike alone. He has the appropriate to do no matter he desires. He can provide order if folks in Rivers are slaves to him,” Mr Lamido retorted. “If they’re his personal slave, he can management them. Honest sufficient, he’s their emperor let him give them order.”
“I noticed him on TV the opposite day and I felt somewhat anxious the way in which he (Wike) was speaking as a result of he was too bombastic,” he continued. “Within the subsequent eight months, Wike will likely be like me, in the identical political dustbin of former governors.”
Weeks in the past, Mr Wike had described Mr Lamido as one of many “assault canines” of the PDP presidential candidate.
The opposition get together has been enmeshed in brouhaha since Mr Wike misplaced the get together’s ticket to Mr Abubakar on the presidential major election on Might 28.
The disaster took a foul flip after Mr Atiku dumped Mr Wike to choose Delta governor Ifeanyi Okowa as his working mate, towards the advice of a celebration committee that had put ahead the Rivers governor.
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