Governor of Rivers Nyesom Wike has mocked Dele Momodu, proprietor of Ovation magazine, for making a statement regarding the recent PDP turmoil (PDP).
The governor of Rivers asserted that, in contrast to some of his detractors, he has not left the PDP since 1999 and that he will not permit anyone to use him to acquire “relevance.”
“I’ve seen certain articles where individuals argue that we shouldn’t cross the line. I shouldn’t have answered to this normally, Wike stated.
“I read they said it is one Dele Momodu. These are the things I’m talking about. Ask him. When did he join the party?
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“He came into PDP two weeks before the presidential primary. He is from Edo state. He did not even get one vote, not even from his own state.
“When you just want them to recognise you — from presidential aspirant to becoming spokesperson — somebody who wants to rule Nigeria has become a spokesperson of a presidential aspirant.
“All of you know how many times Dele Momodu had been in Port Harcourt, from one project commissioning to another.
“I’m not going to be a party to anybody using me to be relevant. If you don’t have a job, say you don’t have any job, I have a job and I will continue to do my job.”
The PDP has been embroiled in internal strife over the past few weeks as Wike and his allies have demanded the resignation of Iyorchia Ayu, the party’s national chairman.
As Wike’s loyalists left the PDP presidential campaign council, attempts to resolve the problem came to a standstill.
Responding to the party’s issue, Momodu urged Wike and his allies “not to cross the lines” in their determination on refusing to support the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in an interview that was published on Vanguard.
“People get angry, there is nothing wrong in that. They have every reason to be angry, but they should not cross certain lines,” the publisher was quoted as saying.
“I have written in the last couple of months to Governor Wike, the closest to me among them, because I call him the ‘poster boy in PDP’, great guy, doing very well, advising him not to cross certain lines.”
