Wike responds to Ganduje: You cannot influence Edo election with ”dollars”

Yusuf Bello| Rivers governor and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign for Edo governorship election, Nyesom Wike on Tuesday told Abdullahi Ganduje, his Kano State counterpart, that Edo governorship election cannot be bought his ”dollars” in an apparent reference to the 2018 video which showed the kano governor stashing dollars he allegedly collected as bribe from a contractor.

Wike was reacting to Ganduje’s earlier statement by Ganduje, chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign council for Edo governorship, that the Rivers state governor would be sent to an isolation centre ahead of the September 19 governorship election.

According to Wike, who spoke at the inauguration of the PDP campaign team in Abuja, nobody would “intimidate us (PDP) in this election”.

He said, “Yesterday, I was told and today I read on the pages of newspapers that one Governor Ganduje said that he is going to isolate me until the election is over.”

“If Nigeria is supposed to be a country, who is supposed to be isolated? A man who pockets dollars in ‘babanriga’ from contractors is not isolated and you say that me should be isolated. In this country, where are we heading to?

“Let me tell you why they [APC] made Ganduje the chairman of the campaign council – it is because of the dollars they saw.

“What he doesn’t understand is that we are from the Niger Delta; we shall chop his dollar and we will chop him to a coma. So, Ganduje, your dollar will not work in Edo State, we have integrity in our party.”