{"id":275878,"date":"2023-06-23T08:54:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T07:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=275878"},"modified":"2023-06-23T08:54:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T07:54:20","slug":"apc-chieftain-we-are-ready-to-receive-wike-into-our-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/06\/23\/apc-chieftain-we-are-ready-to-receive-wike-into-our-party\/","title":{"rendered":"APC chieftain: We are ready to receive Wike into our party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has stated that it is ready to receive former governor of the state if he decides to defect to the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This was stated by a<span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\"> chieftain of the APC and former Chief of Staff, Rivers State Government House, Chief Tony Okocha at a news briefing in Port Harcourt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">This followed speculations that Wike may dump the Peoples Democratic Party for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/06\/20\/delta-apc-party-chieftains-reveal-how-omo-agege-lured-emefiele-to-work-against-tinubu\/\">APC<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">Okocha who was the Coordinator of the BAT-Vanguard, an acronym for the disbanded Bola Ahmed Tinubu Vanguard in the South-South said Wike has the right to join any party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">He said the role Wike played in the emergence of Tinubu as Nigeria\u2019s incumbent President cannot be overemphasised, noting that some persons want to reap where they didn\u2019t sow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">Okocha stated, \u201cWe are noticing that some persons who abandoned Tinubu when Tinubu needed them most and voyaged outside the shores are now relying on their personal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/06\/08\/the-portable-playground-exploring-the-influence-of-mobile-phones-on-nigerias-sports-betting-culture\/\">relationships<\/a> one way or the other to begin to make some sense of entitlement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">\u201cThat they are entitled to whatever. In the leadership of the Tinubu family in Rivers State, we are at peace 100 per cent with His Excellency, Barr Nyesom Wike, the immediate past Governor of Rivers State as our leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe who pays the Piper dictates the tune. When it was difficult, even when the national body could not oblige us with funds for the national rally here, the magic was done by somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">He also urged the former Rivers State Governor not to delay in joining the APC to reap from his efforts in seeing Tinubu as President.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">\u201cOur demand is that nobody should rob Peter to pay Paul. Our own share of the booty given to us should be handed over to His Excellency Nyesom Wike.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">\u201cWe are confident that as soon as it gets to him, he knows those who worked for Tinubu, and it will get to us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">\u201cIt is only natural, that is how it should go, \u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">While replying to an aide to the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abunakar who said Wike was not poisoned but suffering from excessive alcohol, he said it was a show of disrespect from the party leadership.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">According to him, \u201cThe leadership of the PDP in Nigeria does not appreciate the influence and pedigree embedded in Wike.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">\u201cA man goes to thank God for surviving poisoning and somebody said it was not poison but as a result of excessive alcohol.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectable-text copyable-text iq0m558w\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"selectable-text copyable-text\">\u201cIt does appear to us that the PDP does not know what they have in Wike. 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