Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has declared interest in contesting the position of the President of Nigeria in the 2023 general election.
Wike spoke at the Government House, Makurdi, Benue State while addressing party delegates.
He called on the party’s delegates not to sell their votes, stressing that most of the presidential aspirants from the party were responsible for the party’s defeat in 2015.
He urged them to ask those interested in presidency in the PDP to tell them their contributions to the development of the party.
He said, “You claimed to be one of the founding fathers of the party, but you left and came back; you have become an ordinary person in the new PDP.
“If you form a company and run away because the company is not doing well, then you come back and found that it is now doing well, will you want to come and take over?
He further said, “Some people want to use Nigeria to get back their private businesses. Let them mention their private sector that survived. Is it bank that your father had?
“Everybody is an employer of labour; even me I have 50 people in my house. So everybody has been employing people according to his capacity”