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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Saturday revealed why he will and might not support his former boss, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan if he (Jonathan) decides to run for the presidency come 2023.
The outspoken governor said he will not support the ex-president even if he gets the Presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest the 2023 election.
TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that Wike was the Minister of State for Education under the Jonathan government before he (Wike) contested for and won the Rivers Governorship Election in 2015.
TNG reports that Jonathan was president from 2010 – 2015.
Speaking to BBC Pidgin at the weekend in Port Harcourt, the governor also said God used him to make the Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, a governor of Rivers.
Wike said even Jonathan knew that he (Wike) would work against him if he joined the APC and clinched the party’s ticket to run for the Presidency in 2023.
He said: “I am a PDP member, if former President Goodluck Jonathan picks a ticket to run in my party, I will support him. I can’t do anti-party. But if he picks a ticket to run in APC, I won’t support him because I can’t do anti-party.
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“He knows I won’t support him in APC even if he is from the south. I don’t do that kind of politics. It is party we are talking about and I don’t play ethnicity.”
Wike mocked Amaechi for calling him his employee saying that the Transport Minister would not have governed the state if God had not used him to make him a governor at that time.
He said Amaechi had forgotten when he said in a church that after God in his life, the second person was he (Wike) adding that he was at liberty to choose any position in Amaechi’s government because of his contributions.