A former federal lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye, has criticised Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for saying that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is embarking on a fruitless mission if it sponsors him (Melaye) for the forthcoming governorship election in Kogi State.
Governor Wike had in a media chat with Channels TV said Melaye knows that he does not have what it takes to be a governor of a state, adding that if Kogi people come out to vote for Melaye, it means they do not want development.
âWhen you give Dino that ticket, you know you wonât win in Kogi State. Why will Kogi people say they will vote for a candidate like Dino? Are we joking? The mere fact that you are from Kogi, therefore any Kogi person?
We are talking about governance of a state and we are not talking about drama. For Christâs sake, PDP presents such a candidate and you mean that Kogi people want development? Let us stop the idea that he is from Kogi. Take, for example, anybody from Lagos State should just come out and Lagos people should go and vote for him to be governor. I mean, that canât be serious,â Wike said.
Reacting to Wikeâs statement, Melaye in a statement captioned âWike and the Effluents from an Unsound Mindâ, said that Wike supported his governorship ambition in 2019 but took a swipe at him now because he (Melaye) did not support what he described as his misplaced presidential aspiration in the 2023 general elections.
Melaye said, âThe simultaneous appearance of Nyesom Wike on some national television in Nigeria earlier today is a sad reminder of the misfortune that the people of Rivers State have suffered in having an unstable mind and a prodigal head as the Governor of the State for the past 8 years. In the end, all that the indecorous Wike achieved was to buy precious media time to vent his spleen on fellow Nigerians who are more qualified than him to be Governors in Nigeria.
âHallucinated by the patrimonial resources of the good, but impoverished people of Rivers State, Wike has turned himself into a depraved interloper, who probably out of schizophrenic impulse engage in pitiable melodrama whenever he steps away from the intoxication of his bottle companions. He has suddenly become the self-appointed public office regulator, who could determine what would happen in states not in any way contiguous to his colonised State.
âOn recovering from his inebriation, Wike should be reminded that Kogi is not Rivers, and the people of Kogi State would not worship any foreign God. Above all, Wike should also understand that power belongs to God, and he gives it to whoever he wants, even the basest of men. And but for this absolute and indiscriminate dispensation by God, how did a conceited person like Nyesom Wike become a governor? Is it his oratory, diligence, finesse, wealth or intellectual endowment?
âToday, Wike can take a swipe at me, and mark me down as unqualified to govern my state, but has he forgotten that he believed in my Gubernatorial aspiration in 2019? Can he be reminded that I have served as a member of the Federal House of Representatives and have also been elected twice into the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?
