Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike says Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State “has the DNA of a serial betrayer.”
Governor Wike stated this while responding to Obaseki’s advertorial in which he upbraided the Rivers State governor.
Wike said that beyond being a betrayer, Governor Obaseki is also full of ingratitude. He added that after begging to be given the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ticked in the 2020 Edo governorship election, Obaseki had refused to be grateful to the party and the people who supported him to be re-elected when he left the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Governor Wike openly apologised to the immediate former National Chairman of the APC, and Obaseki’s immediate predecessor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, whom he said had initially warned them about accepting Governor Obaseki into the PDP fold.
“If you check the DNA of Obaseki, what you will see in that DNA is betrayal, serial betrayal, and ungratefulness.
“Let me stand today to apologise to Adams Oshiomhole who has been vindicated by telling us that we will see the true colour, the insincerity, the ungratefulness of Governor Obaseki.
“We have voted for PDP since 1999 till now; ask Governor Obaseki if he has done anything for PDP (or) voted for PDP. The only election he voted was his own election – where we gave him an umbrella.”
The visibly angry Wike highlighted his contribution to the efforts that led to Governor Obaseki’sre-election to underscore the accusation of ingratitude he levied again the Edo State governor, n having served as the Director-General (DG) of his campaign organisation in 2020.
“Let me clearly say without any apology to anybody that one of the problems in this country is leadership – people who cannot stand firm and say: this is white; this is black at all times,” the Rivers governor said.
“I am not in the class of Obaseki, never! We are not the same, we can’t be the same. I was the DG of his campaign, I went there (to Edo) for three days. I stayed there without having my bath. I have never seen somebody like that in my life – a serial betrayer”.
While promising to smoke Obaseki and his “cohorts” out of the PDP, Wike warned the Edo State governor to take time to differentiate between politics and the “Beni. artefacts”, an overt allusion to the dispute between Obaseki and the Benin Palace over the custody of returned stolen Benin works of arts.
“Let me tell you Obaseki, I know your cohorts and I will smoke all of you out. This is not the Benin artefact that you were challenging the Oba (of Benin), this is politics. Obaseki, I have more stake in PDP than you. I have fought for this party, mention one thing that you have done for the PDP,” Wike challenged.
