Governor Wike, in an interview in Government House, Port Harcourt, stated that the direction of Rivers delegates will not be determined by one person.
He said: "At the end of the day, the leadership of the party will meet at the state level and decide where are we heading to?
"Then, we will all be together. No one individual can do it alone. So, Rivers state will move as a team. I will listen to the leadership of the party, then, we will move forward.
Who are we going to support? Where is the national survey? Who is more popular? This is how politics is played.
"I challenge any of the presidential aspirants from the North, who have gone to other governors and they have given them campaign coordinators, I challenge them to mention if I have given them one name."
He also said that the decision on the way that Rivers would go will not be determined by sentiments but by the over-riding interest of the state.
"Can anybody say I have met him one day to say support so, so, and so presidential aspirant? People have been coming here and I told them I will not and I will never nominate anybody to be a liaison to any of the presidential aspirants. Not one person, I challenge them.
Atiku (Abubakar) came here, (Sule) Lamido came here, Makarfi came here, Saraki came here, Tambuwal came here, (Ibrahim) Shekarau came here, (Attahiru) Bafarawa came here.
Let one person say I have ever said take Joseph, take John, take JohnBull, take Beatrice as your campaign coordinator like some do.
"I don't deceive people, I will not deceive people, and I will not deceive my people," he stressed.
The governor further stated that nobody will blindfold Rivers people into supporting a presidential aspirant with compromised credentials.
He alleged that some of the aspirants are under the sponsorship of President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said: "One thing you must take home is that I cannot be misled, I cannot be blindfolded. I know what's going on.
"I have not even mentioned how a very senior official of a security agency in the country told me which of the candidates to support!
"You can imagine me as a governor and the head of a security agency would tell me to support one or two persons.
Head of security agency, who is in a government controlled by the All Progressives Congress! Come on! You direct me on who to support for president?"
The governor reiterated that the plot by the APC-led Federal Government to deploy security agencies to rig elections in Rivers state in 2019, will fail.
"It won't happen in my state, but, I know they will kill a lot of persons. I can tell you they will kill a lot of us. No problem, this is the sacrifice we have to make for democracy to thrive".
Governor Wike equally stated that he would have nothing to do with godfather politics, and pointed out that when he leaves office in 2023, the people of the state will collectively choose his successor.
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