Wike: I have no personal problems with Secondus

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has declared that he has no personal problem with the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus.

Wike said his primary concern was to salvage the PDP from an impending doom occasioned by inert leadership.

He said: “Everybody believed that whatever the national chairman was doing was dictated by Wike and must have the backing of Wike. I believe when you support somebody, support him to succeed.

“But when things are also going wrong, if you don’t speak out, people will believe you are part of it. Therefore, I owe it as a duty to say things are not going right.”

The governor accused some members of the National Working Committee (NWC) particularly, the National Organising Secretary, Col. Austin Akobundu, of stirring crisis in the party because of his  governorship ambition.

He warned that the PDP should be wary of  agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC), bent on causing division and destabilising  the party.

He said some of the persons causing problems in the party include some former governors and ministers.

The governor said that he did not have problems with the former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar and was not aware if Atiku wanted to contest the presidency in 2023 because PDP has not yet zoned the presidency.

Wike who spoke as a guest on a television programme in Port Harcourt said the resolution of the internal crisis rocking the PDP allayed his initial fear of possible implosion of the party.