{"id":1264544,"date":"2022-12-12T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T10:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/12\/it-would-be-an-insult-for-another-northerner-to-succeed-buhari-wike\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T10:17:30","slug":"it-would-be-an-insult-for-another-northerner-to-succeed-buhari-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/12\/it-would-be-an-insult-for-another-northerner-to-succeed-buhari-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It Would Be An Insult For Another Northerner To Succeed Buhari&#8221; &#8211; Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_854193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-854193\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-854193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nyesom Wike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has criticized the possibility of another Northerner to succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari amid his grievance of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>Wike said it would be an insult for another Northerner to emerge as the country\u2019s leader after President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>He said those agitating for narratives are insulting the sensibility of Nigerians, adding that they do not promote national unity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: <\/strong>\u201cAllowing APC Return To Power Is Suicidal, Destructive\u201d \u2013 Northern Group<\/p>\n<p>Wike made this statement at St. Paul\u2019s Anglican Church in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Sunday, as contained in a statement by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wike: \u201cYou play on people\u2019s intelligence; you say Nigeria is not ripe for muslim-muslim ticket, I agree. But Nigeria is ripe for presidency to remain in one zone? I mean, just look at the insult. You blow hot and cold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe governor said the North would be cheating other regions by producing Buhari\u2019s successor in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of you just sit there; you don\u2019t ask yourselves questions. Somebody continues to sell these kinds of cheap ideas. You don\u2019t ask the person, I agree with what you are saying, but look at what we are saying here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour party wants the presidency to go to the same zone where President Muhammadu Buhari is coming from. Who is cheating who?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyesom Wike The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has criticized the possibility of another Northerner to succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari amid his grievance of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar. Wike said it would be an insult for another Northerner to emerge as the country\u2019s leader after President Muhammadu Buhari. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}