We Will stay, Fight For Our Place In The PDP- Wike

Rivers state governor, Nyesome Wike has said that rather than jump ship, he and his allies would stay put and fight for an inclusive space within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Wike made the declaration yesterday at the Rivers State PDP stakeholders’ meeting held at the Government House, Port Harcourt.

The governor, whose backers in the party have withdrawn from Atiku’s Presidential Campaign Council, described himself as s a man of character, “unlike those who cannot keep their words and walked out of the party at the Eagle Square in Abuja in 2014,” a somewhat deflected reference to Atiku and his co-travellers, who decamped to other parties.

“One thing I have always told people is, if anybody is thinking, doing anything to think that we will leave PDP, foul. We will fight at the party. We are not like them when in 2014 they walked out of Eagle Square. They’ve forgotten. They walked out and joined APC. Is it not correct?”

“Did they remain to fight inside the party? But we remained, they ran away. Now, there is a fight at the party, we will not run. We will fight it at this party.

“Those who run away from fights are weak people. We will not. So, everybody should know this is the state where we are. So that nobody tells you all kinds of stories”, he added.