Former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gave him the green light to accept the ministerial position under the Bola Tinubu administration.<\/p>\n
Wike, who described the PDP leaders as reggae dancers for threatening to sanction him, said the party was well informed before he accepted the position.<\/p>\n
The former governor also said that Tinubu wrote the 36 state governors, including those of the PDP, who, according to him, gave 10 names to the president to appoint as ministers.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you even mention who is my enemy? Can you even mention one person that is my enemy?\u201d Wike said at his first press briefing as a minister of the Federal Republic in Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSee, people carry propaganda. Let me use this opportunity to tell you that I don\u2019t like people who don\u2019t tell the truth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said they\u2019re going to sanction me because I accepted the appointment. I don\u2019t have any clause.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe president wrote to the 36 state governors to bring names of people to appoint, didn\u2019t PDP governors submit names?<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery PDP governor wrote a letter and nominated ten persons to be appointed by this government.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the one they talk about is Wike. Before this appointment came, I wrote to the national chairman. I wrote to the minority leaders of the House of Reps and Senate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wrote to the zonal chairman of the party and my state chairman. I wrote to my governor and all of them wrote me back and said \u201caccept.\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n
\u201cI have my evidence documented. Forget these reggae dancers. I call them reggae dancers because when you\u2019ve lost your opportunity, you\u2019ve lost your opportunity because of arrogance and impunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wike further explained that when the president told him about his ministerial appointment, he wrote to the PDP National Chairman, Umar Damagun, the South-South zonal chairman of the party, and his Rivers State chairman to notify them of the appointment and they all wrote back giving their approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gave him the green light to accept the ministerial position under the Bola Tinubu administration. Wike, who described the PDP leaders as reggae dancers for threatening to sanction him, said the party was well informed before he accepted the position. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":253971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"0","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[67517,112,28,3126],"class_list":["post-284844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ministerial-appointment","tag-pdp","tag-tinubu","tag-wike"],"yoast_head":"\n