Responding to Governor Obaseki’s statement that all the PDP members have equal stake in the party, Wike said: “Obaseki, I have more stake in PDP than you. I have fought for this party; mention one thing that you have done for the PDP.”
In the war of words that have ensued between the two governors over the weekend, the Rivers State governor said: “Let me tell you Obaseki, I know your cohorts and I will smoke all of you out. This is not the Benin artefact that you were challenging the Oba (of Benin). This is politics.
“I am not in the class of Obaseki, never! We are not the same, we can’t be the same. I was the DG of his campaign, I went there (to Edo) for three days. I stayed there without having my bath. I have never seen somebody like that in my life – a serial betrayer.
Addressing a crowd at the commissioning of a secondary school in Omuanwa community, Rivers State today, March 14, Governor Wike accused Governor Obaseki of being ungrateful to the party and the people who supported him to be re-elected when he left the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Governor Wike, who apologised to a former national chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, for not listening to his warning that Governor Obaseki would betray him in the PDP, said: “if you check the DNA of Obaseki, what you will see in that DNA is betrayal, serial betrayal, and ungratefulness.
“Let me stand today to apologise to Adams Oshiomhole who has been vindicated by telling us that we will see the true colour, the insincerity, the ungratefulness of Governor Obaseki.
“We have voted for PDP since 1999 till now; ask Governor Obaseki if he has done anything for PDP (or) voted for PDP. The only election he voted was his own election – where we gave him an umbrella.”
“Let me clearly say without any apology to anybody that one of the problems in this country is leadership – people who cannot stand firm and say: this is white; this is black at all times.”
