BY MAYOWA SAMUEL
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has revealed that he will make his preferred presidential candidate known in January 2023.
Disclosing this on Thursday, at the commissioning of the tenth flyover by his administration in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area, the governor also revealed that he will campaign for his adopted candidate across the country.
Wike said, “From January next year, I will campaign to my people whom they will vote for.
“So, all of you who have been in suspense, who have been saying all kinds of things, abusing me, wait January is here.
“Not only will I tell them (my people) whom to vote, I will move from state to state (for campaigns) and why they should vote for the person, nothing will happen,” he said.
Following the PDP presidential primary in May where he lost out, Wike has been at loggerheads with Atiku Abubakar over the chairmanship of Iyorchia Ayu.
After the presidential primary, Atiku, a former Vice President, stung Wike when he passed over his closest rival at the primary and chose Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate.
Wike, with four other PDP governors known as the G5 or the Integrity Group, have insisted that Benue-born Ayu must step down for a southerner as a precondition to support the 2023 ambition of Atiku.
