Wike unveils preferred candidate

<p><strong>Rivers State Governor&comma; Nyesom Wike&comma; has said the presidential candidate he and his political allies would support is someone adjudged to have integrity&comma; who keeps his word and would not renege on any agreement brokered&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He stated this at Rumuji-Odegwe town where the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party &lpar;PDP&rpar; held a rally to flag-off its campaign in Emohua Local Government Area&comma; yesterday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He enjoined some leaders of the state like Sergeant Awuse&comma; who declared that party stalwarts in the state were anxiously awaiting directive on the presidential election&comma; to continue to exercise patience while the decision on preferred presidential candidate would be concluded soon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Chief Awuse has said&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;we are tired of waiting&period;’ Indeed&comma; we are tired of waiting&period; But don’t worry&period; You’ve been patient&period; Your being patient will not be taken for granted&period; The bell will soon ring&period; When you hear the bell&comma; listen to where the bell is coming from and go and do what you have been told to do&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;vice-president-dies-after-brief-illness&sol;">Vice President Dies After Brief Illness <&sol;a><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I can assure you all these buccaneers&comma; all these vampires&comma; we will teach them a lesson&period; All those who said Rivers State is not important&comma; we’ll tell them that Rivers State is important&period; If you play with us&comma; we’ll play with you&period; If they play with us&comma; we’ll play with them&period; Enough is enough&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So&comma; let me apologise and plead with Ohna&comma; Nne-New-Eli Emohua Local Government&comma; it is almost time&comma; endure&period; Very soon you’ll hear and I can assure them&comma; no going back&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The governor said he has been waiting patiently for those who threatened to expel him from the PDP to act out their threat&period; He said those issuing such a threat were not oblivious that PDP was already polarised&comma; and taking such action against him and his allies would lead to the extinction of the party&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The governor said the state has what it takes to withstand those he described as buccaneers and vampires already in the stock-in-trade of selling their conscience for pot of pottage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;