Secondus: What Wike did a day to Christmas

 

Secondus: What Wike did a day to Christmas

By PHC Telegraph 

The Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike on Saturday delivered a Christmas package to the former Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus.

Coming against the backdrop of the Yuletide season when men turn attention to celebration of the birth of the Christ, it was however unusual gift.

It was a gift which got Nigerians wondering when the bad blood within the PDP would simmer down.

Although Wike had urged his opponents, especially  politicians who are busy looking for a fight, to await the arrival of January, Secondus apparently chose to call out the Rivers strongman.

Reacting to Wike’s remark on Friday, Secondus stressed

the Governor has indicated that he was on a mission to impose his preferred candidate on the people

Speaking failing the inauguration of the Aluu-Omagwa link road, Wike said it was obvious Secondus did not understand the import of his statement.

Wike observed that Secondus who has difficulty understanding “grammar” misinterpreted comments he uttered Friday.

Secondus had interpreted Wike’s statement to mean that the Rivers state governor is intent on imposing his choice of candidate on the people of the state.

Wike fired back, “The former member of our party, one Prof. Uche Secondus said that no one can impose a presidential candidate on Rivers people.

“You are not a member of our party, his ward expelled him from our party and the court affirmed it. He went to the appeal court and lost.

“He went to the Supreme court and the matter is coming up on October 23rd, 2023.

The Rivers Governor recalled that the comeback bid of Prince Secondus was aborted,  making it impossible for him to be the one to conduct the PDP’s national convention.

“I told him” that he “will not be the national chairman to conduct the convention”, Wike noted at Saturday’s commissioning ceremony.

“I never said I was going to impose my candidate on Rivers State”, Governor Wike explained.

“I said I was going to tell Rivers people whom I am going to support and campaign for.

“But you see I don’t blame you when you didn’t finish secondary school”, Wike said to Secondus, “how will you understand my grammar?

“That I said I will tell Rivers people whom I am going to support does not mean I will impose the candidate on them”

Secondus and Wike who belong to two different camps within the PDP at the national level have been having issues for quite a while.

Their differences further worsened as the PDP prepared for its National Convention in Abuja.