Wike's STRONG MESSAGE: You can't make us lower citizens since your survival depends on us

Wike's STRONG MESSAGE: You can't make us lower citizens since your survival depends on us

- Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state is blowing hot against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)

- While receiving some media people who visited to inform him about an award, Wike warned about certain issues

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has described as a contradiction the situation where politicians from states that depend on Rivers petroleum for survival , insist that Rivers people should be second class citizens in Nigeria.

Wike says his people remain as important as other citizens

A statement from Wike's special assistant, Simeon Nwakaudu, said the governor maintained that Nigeria belongs to everyone, adding that on no account should any section of the country be made to feel inferior.

Speaking at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Thursday, December 22, 2016 after receiving a nomination letter as the 'Governor of The Year of Authority Newspaper', he said: "I believe that this country belongs to all of us. I believe that nobody should be a second class citizen of this country.

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"I come from a state that by the special grace of God produces the wealth of the nation. So, even those who depend on the oil money to survive are allowed to speak. Why would somebody that produces that wealth, not speak ?"

According to him, what the people of Rivers state demand is that democracy must triumph.

The governor wondered why the leadership of APC cannot accept that they will not win in all states, when former President Jonathan willingly conceded defeat.

"This is a government that came to power on the platform of change. We have offered ourselves to help them achieve change, instead of them to commend us, they want to eliminate us.

"I have told people who care to know, you rig election where you are popular. When you rig election where you are not popular, it leads to violence," he declared.

Wike noted that the police are investigating a concocted audio of his as a means of justifying their failure to deliver to their paymasters, despite the funds allocated to them to subvert the will of Rivers people.

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"They are justifying the money they spent , simply to retire the money. They couldn’t deliver, so they are looking for ways to justify the money given to them," he said, adding that if the police authorities were serious about investigations, they would have been investigating the APC governors who threatened violence in Hausa and Yoruba languages at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium during the party’s rally.

According to Wike, the APC rally which was televised live also had the party's national chairman threatening violence on Rivers people.

Concerning the award conferred on him, Wike said it would spur him to work harder.

Earlier, the managing director and Editor-in-Chief of Authority Newspaper, Mr Madu Onuorah, said the governor was nominated because of his exploits in politics and infrastructural development.

The award conferment ceremony will hold on January 26, 2017.