“Wike terrorized us for eight years, won’t be allowed to join our party” ― Rivers APC

The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has again rejected the immediate past governor of the state, Nyesom Wike from joining the party, accusing him of terrorizing it for eight years.

According to Darlington Nwauju, who’s currently serving as the Publicity Secretary of the party, Wike can’t join the party due to the terror he unleashed on the party for eight years.

He disclosed this in a statement he issued Monday, describing Wike as an enemy, hence wouldn’t be allowed to join the party.

The statement reads partly: “The terror unleashed on our party members in the cause of his eight years of maximum rulership alone is enough evidence to confirm that Wike has no business with Rivers State APC.

“Asking him to come and take over is asking an enemy to come and finish off his victims.

“We are aware of his schemes to escape justice over the looting of the collective patrimony of Rivers people which is the major reason for his romancing top APC members.

“For those who may be suffering from amnesia, a non-APC member cannot be a cheerleader for the entry of Wike into APC.”

During the last presidential election, Wike had openly campaigned for President Bola Tinubu.

Wike, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, dumped his party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for Tinubu of the APC.

Following Wike’s commitment to ensure that Tinubu won the presidential election, a chieftain of the APC and former Chief of Staff, Rivers State Government House, Chief Tony Okocha stated that Wike deserves to reap what he sowed in making President Bola Tinubu victorious in the 2023 presidential election.

Okocha who was the Coordinator of the BAT-Vanguard, an acronym for the disbanded Bola Ahmed Tinubu Vanguard in the South-South said Wike has the right to join any party.

Okocha stated, “We are noticing that some persons who abandoned Tinubu when Tinubu needed them most and voyaged outside the shores are now relying on their personal relationships one way or the other to begin to make some sense of entitlement.

“That they are entitled to whatever. In the leadership of the Tinubu family in Rivers State, we are at peace 100 per cent with His Excellency, Barr Nyesom Wike, the immediate past Governor of Rivers State as our leader.

“He who pays the Piper dictates the tune. When it was difficult, even when the national body could not oblige us with funds for the national rally here, the magic was done by somebody.”

He also urged the former Rivers State Governor not to delay in joining the APC to reap from his efforts in seeing Tinubu as President.

“Our demand is that nobody should rob Peter to pay Paul. Our own share of the booty given to us should be handed over to His Excellency Nyesom Wike.

“We are confident that as soon as it gets to him, he knows those who worked for Tinubu, and it will get to us.

“It is only natural, that is how it should go, ” he added.