The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has explained that he congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari after the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal confirmed his election because it is better to offer public congratulations than visit the President at night.
Wike said unlike some governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who visit Buhari at night, he made his declaration public because it came from the heart.
He spoke on Thursday at the funeral service in honour of Late Madam Blessing Awuse, Mother of Onha Sergent Awuse, at St Luke’s Anglican Church, Emohua.
He said: “I am sure all of you are surprised that I congratulated Buhari. Is it not good for me to congratulate him than to go to his house in the night?”
“So many PDP governors go to see him in his house in the night. I have never gone and I will not go. I won’t go.”
“We are the only state that the Federal Government refused to pay us our money used to execute Federal projects because I don’t go to see him in the night and I won’t go. He is not my friend, he is not doing well, but he won in court, should I say that the court did wrong, no.”
“President Buhari, congratulations and carry Nigerians along. Unify the country, the country is too divided. I am saying what is right. What I will do, I will do, what I will not do, I will not do”.
Wike said politics is a game of interest, noting that Rivers people in the All Progressives Congress, APC, are under obligation to attract federal benefits to the state.
‘Politics is a game of interest. And my only interest is Rivers State . Anything that is against the interest of Rivers State, I will not agree.
“These people sold us out, thinking that they are doing Governor Wike. It is the State that you are offending, because I am just one person,” he said.