Governor Nyeson Wike has threatened to ‘chop’ the ‘dollars’ of Kano State’s Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, and overwhelm him in the process.
The Rivers State governor said the All Progressives Congress made Ganduje its campaign chairman in Edo State because of his ‘dollars’, but he (Wike) was not scared.
“What he doesn’t understand is that we are from the Niger Delta; we shall chop his dollars and we will chop him to a coma. So, Ganduje, your dollar will not work in Edo State, we have integrity in our party.”
Wike, who was apparently referring to the money Ganduje was seen collecting in a video in controversial circumstances, was reacting to a claim by the latter that the APC would cage him (Wike), as the head of the Peoples Democratic Party campaign team in the Eno governorship election, and isolate him until the election is over.
Ganduje had said, “The PDP decided to accommodate our former governor in Edo State not because they have anything in common; not because they share some ideological feelings, but simply because he is managing the treasury of Edo State and they want him to use that treasury in order to win the election.
“But I assure you, the people of Edo State are watching they know that somebody who was assisted in 2016 to win an election, somebody who was given every cooperation to succeed in the governance of Edo State without doing much for the people, at the end of it, he has taken the treasury and now handed it over to PDP in order to win the election.”
But, reacting in Abuja on Tuesday, Wike said if anyone should be caged, it was Ganduje.
He added:
“Yesterday, I was told and today I read on the pages of newspapers that one Governor Ganduje said that he was 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 I 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.”
