On Wednesday, November 16, 2022; River State Governor Nyesom Wike expressed regret to former APC National Chairman Adams Oshiomhole for having backed the re-election of Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki in September 2020.
At the opening of the Rumuepirikom Flyover in the state’s Obio-Akpor Local Government Area, which the former APC chairman had commissioned, Wike apologised to Oshiomhole and said he had learned his lesson and that the past should stay in the past.
“I use this opportunity to apologise to you. I came to Edo State to make sure your candidate didn’t win election. I said you won’t win and you didn’t win. That assignment has been done and we now know who is who,” Wike told a smiling Oshiomhole.
“We are now friends, let bygones be bygones,” Wike, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) strongman told the ex-APC national chairman.
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“I want to sincerely apologise to you. Each time you learn. People will praise you when you do for them. When you say, they are wrong, they begin to say all sorts of things.
“I’m sure those of them in my party before cannot do anything without Wike but because I said let the right thing be done, let agreement be agreement, I have now become an enemy. These are people who are praising me morning and night,” he maintained, noting that he stands on equity, fairness and justice.
Oshiomhole praised Wike in his speech for the many “wonderful projects” in Rivers, stating that the numbers don’t lie.
He claims that executive conversations can convey to the populace that political division does not equal conflict.
“I listened to you (Wike) attentively and you said Peter Obi is coming tomorrow. I want to congratulate you for that because I also invited Peter Obi when I was governor and those executive exchanges have a way of communicating to our people that political divide is not war,” Oshiomhole stated.
“I also invited governors from other states to Edo the last one week before my tenure as you said, for them to see what I was able to do.
“I promise that when I get back to Abuja, I will use my mouth to talk what my mouth saw. The flyover I saw is not a culvert. There are people who commissioned culverts and said they were flyovers but what I am seeing here is a beautiful flyover which you will see anywhere in the world,” he added.
