A former minister of Police Affairs, Adamu Waziri, yesterday said Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, will not dump the PDP over being passed over for the running mate position to the PDP presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
He added that he has Wike’s commitment that he won’t leave the party and would work for the party’s victory in 2023.
He however added that the choice of running mate has been concluded, adding that there is no going back on the decision.
“The presidential candidate has emerged. The vice presidential candidate has emerged. What’s remains is for us to come together and forge ahead,” he stated.
Waziri who spoke on a Channels TV programme, Politics Today, also denied claims by Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, that there was a voted among 17 member advisory committee members which favored Wike’s over Delta State governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa who eventually got the position.
Waziri also recounted his meeting with Wike in Istanbul, Turkey, saying he briefly met with the Rivers State governor and that he assured him that they would talk later.
The former minister who noted that he and Wike met at the front of the hotel in Istanbul said they exchanged banters and joked just as he noted that he didn’t know Wike was lodged in the same hotel.
Expressing support for Wike to be offered the director general position of the PDP campaign, he said the “possibility of Wike not working with Atiku is unthinkable. It won’t happen.
“I know him I have interacted with him. I have his commitment. And I believe he is a man of his words,” he added.
