The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has described his Edo State counterpart, Godwin Obaseki as a “serial betrayer and an ungrateful person”.
He equally apologised to a former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for failing to his warning about the type of person Obaseki is.
The Rivers governor spoke in reaction to Obaseki’s statement that Wike should not cause acrimony in PDP by claiming ownership of the part, maintaining that everyone is equal in the party.
The Edo governor was addressing Wike’s outburst after Obaseki’s deputy, Philip Shaibu complained that they were being unfairly treated following their defection to the PDP.
In a Monday statement he personally signed, Obaseki said, “It clearly amounts to delusion of grandeur, for any one man to nurse the idea that he owns or has more stake in the PDP and everyone should pander to him.
“We are all equal stakeholders in the party and an aggregate of the ideas, opinions, and contributions of all leaders and members should form the position of the party and not the view of one individual or a select few.”
In a swift reaction, Wike said he has more stake in the PDP than Obaseki, noting that his Edo counterpart should never compare them politics-wise.
Wike stated this at the inauguration of Community Secondary School, Omuanwa, in Rivers state on Monday.
He said, “I am not in the class of Obaseki, never! We are not the same, we can’t be the same. I was the DG of his campaign, I went there (to Edo) for three days.
“I stayed there without having my bath. I have never seen somebody like that in my life – a serial betrayer.
“Let me tell you Obaseki, I know your cohorts and I will smoke all of you out. This is not the Benin artefact that you were challenging the Oba (of Benin), this is politics.
“Obaseki, I have more stake in PDP than you. I have fought for this party, mention one thing that you have done for the PDP.”
Wike equally apologised to Oshiomhole for failing to take his warnings about Obaseki’s character seriously.
“If you check the DNA of Obaseki, what you will see in that DNA is betrayal, serial betrayal, and ungratefulness.
“Let me stand today to apologise to Adams Oshiomhole who has been vindicated by telling us that we will see the true colour, the insincerity, the ungratefulness of Governor Obaseki.
“We have voted for PDP since 1999 till now; ask Governor Obaseki if he has done anything for PDP (or) voted for PDP. The only election he voted was his own election – where we gave him an umbrella,” the Rivers governor stated.