{"id":704479,"date":"2019-09-12T21:30:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T21:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/12\/tribunal-why-i-congratulated-buhari\/"},"modified":"2019-09-12T21:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T21:30:26","slug":"tribunal-why-i-congratulated-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/12\/tribunal-why-i-congratulated-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal: Why I Congratulated Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_636734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-636734\" style=\"width: 613px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-636734\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Wike-septin911.jpg\" alt=\"Gov Wike\" width=\"613\" height=\"388\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-636734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nyesom Wike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari following his victory at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal because he won.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an event in Emohua on Thursday, while reacting to criticism that accompanied his congratulatory message to Buhari after the tribunal dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar\u2019s petition, Wike said it was better for him to congratulate Buhari in public than to visit him at night.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, some PDP governors visit President Buhari at nights, saying he made his congratulation public because it came from the heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure all of you are surprised that I congratulated Buhari. Is it not good for me to congratulate him than to go to his house in the night?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0BBNaija: Governor Wike Appreciates Tacha For Mentioning Him In Her Presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many PDP Governors go to see him in his house in the night. I have never gone and I will not go. I won\u2019t go,\u201d Governor Wike was quoted as saying in a statement by his Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWe are the only state that the Federal Government refused to pay us our money used to execute Federal projects because I don\u2019t go to see him in the night and I won\u2019t go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is not my friend, he is not doing well, but he won in court, should I say that the court did wrong? No.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And adds that politics for him is about interest, and \u201cAnything that is against the interest of Rivers State, I will not agree. These people sold us out, thinking that they are doing Governor Wike. It is the state that you are offending because I am just one person,\u201d Wike said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should not punish Rivers State because of me, I am just one individual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not benefited anything from the Federal Government. The only thing we have benefited is the abuse they heap on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyesom Wike Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari following his victory at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal because he won. Speaking at an event in Emohua on Thursday, while reacting to criticism that accompanied his congratulatory message to Buhari after the tribunal dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tribunal: Why I Congratulated Buhari - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/12\/tribunal-why-i-congratulated-buhari\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tribunal: Why I Congratulated Buhari - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nyesom Wike Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari following his victory at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal because he won. 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