Nyesom Wike responded to Atiku Abubakar’s comments on Saturday, referring to him as a consistent loser in the 2023 PDP presidential candidacy.
Atiku dissed Wike, the FCT Minister and ex-governor of Rivers State, about the local government elections in Rivers state.
The Action Peoples Party (APP) won almost all the local government chairmanship positions in PDP-led Rivers, which shows that the people rejected Wike, according to Atiku.
But weeks later, the minister said Atiku ran for president in 2019 and 2023 as the PDP candidate and lost, and Nigerians have turned their backs on him.
Wike replied…
“We never contested local government elections. Did we contest [Rivers LG election]? Did we pick form? I hear Atiku Abubakar say, ‘Oh they have rejected me in Rivers State.
Okay, assuming, though not conceding, he had lost so many times, Nigerians have also rejected him,”
“If you say for an election we did not contest; never participated that shows Nigerians have rejected us. It is okay.
You that contested and failed woefully, Nigerians have rejected you, therefore pack and go home.”
