Rivers state Elders Refuse Choice of Wike as Governorship Candidate
Members of the Rivers Leaders and Elders’ Council have expressed their displeasure at the choice of the former minister of education (state), Nyesom Wike, as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, by giving the party a seven-day ultimatum to withdraw him from the governorship race.
The Chairman of the council, Chief Albert Horsfall, issued the ultimatum in Port Harcourt on Monday, advising the Party and President Goodluck Jonathan to make Wike step down from the race before or on January 5, 2015, or risk losing the governorship election in the state.
He said that the people would only vote for a riverine person as their candidate should Wike fail to withdraw from the governorship race.
Horsfall also claim that the people of the state cannot be bribed or bought over with money or be intimidated into succumbing to injustice and slavery for the next 50 years as a result of the failure of the state PDP to embrace zoning of the governorship position in the state.