{"id":973319,"date":"2022-02-02T07:42:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/politicians-taking-southern-region-for-granted-says-wike\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T07:42:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:42:16","slug":"politicians-taking-southern-region-for-granted-says-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/politicians-taking-southern-region-for-granted-says-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians Taking Southern Region For Granted, Says Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_835867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-835867\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-835867 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Wike-to-Judiciary-600x323.jpg\" alt=\"2023: Politicians Taking Southern Region For Granted, Says Wike\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-835867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Governor of Rivers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationng.com\/2022\/01\/nigerias-judiciary-becoming-more-confusing-painfully-contradictory-wike.html\">Nyesom Wike<\/a>, claims that politicians are taking the south for granted when it comes to allocating the presidential ticket to the area.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed this on Monday in Port Harcourt, Rivers\u2019 capital, during a meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s\u00a0stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>Wike stated in a statement released by his spokesperson, Kelvin Ebiri, that members of the PDP, regardless of area, must work together to achieve positive results in the 2023 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease, discountenance anything you\u2019re seeing and hearing; all those social media posts,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationng.com\/2022\/02\/2023-nigerian-youths-are-coming-with-power-in-their-hands-ambode.html\">2023: \u2018Nigerian Youths Are Coming With Power In Their Hands\u2019 \u2013 Ambode<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe south will make a statement very soon. It is not about you\u2019ll be vice-president to this or these people are consulting. The day the south makes a statement, Nigerians will know that we are not joking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not to come out to say you\u2019re consulting. You\u2019re consulting, yet, you\u2019ve declared. Is it not after consultation that you declare? You\u2019ve already declared and you say you\u2019re consulting. What are you consulting again then?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd people take the south for granted, saying that they are not together. No problem. If we didn\u2019t know yesterday, today we know. We are assets. We are not a liability. When we say we are going to support the party, we support the party with everything we have. We are not in America where you do television campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we come out, we will choke them. They know it. So, everybody should relax. Let the south do their homework and then, they\u2019ll make a proper statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is necessary is how the party must be cohesive; to make sure that the party gets it right. When you threaten that it must be north, then you\u2019re not trying to make peace or when you threaten it must be south, you\u2019re not trying to make peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a matter of sitting down and understanding; look at this and that. That is the way it\u2019s supposed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wike Governor of Rivers, Nyesom Wike, claims that politicians are taking the south for granted when it comes to allocating the presidential ticket to the area. He revealed this on Monday in Port Harcourt, Rivers\u2019 capital, during a meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s\u00a0stakeholders. Wike stated in a statement released by his spokesperson, Kelvin Ebiri, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973319","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\/973319","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=973319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}