Senator Dino Melaye has publicly exposed the desperation of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to be picked as running mate to the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP), Atiku Abubakar in his response to Wike’s attack on his Kogi State governorship ambition.
Speaking on African Independent Television (AIT) interview, Melaye said Governor Wike called him 19 times to speak to Atiku to on his behalf to consider him as running mate but later claimed that he was championing the call for the presidential ticket to be zoned to the South
“I want to tell you that Wike is a pretentious character, a liar and he has no iota of integrity, Wike was calling me when Atiku Abubakar was to announce his running mate , I have records and I have printed it out and I am waiting for him, he called me 19 times in 2 hours begging us to convince Atiku Abubakar to make him the Vice Presidential candidate so when I see him lying on TV saying “because of the south, because of Southern Nigeria, the presidency must go to south” you that were lobbying us and begging us promising us heaven and earth to convince Atiku Abubakar to make you Vice Presidential candidate to the extent that he was at the airport.
“I have a video, he spent hours in the airport waiting for me to call him to say Atiku has picked you as Vice President, he was at the airport waiting, calling me, calling my brother and friend we were on the senate together was also calling me that day, I have witnesses, I even gave the phone to Abudul Ningi to speak with him, I gave the phone to senator Uzamere to speak with him, he was begging all of us promising heaven and earth, Atiku should announce him, it was around 1 or so that I told him; Oga, nobody go give you vice president.
“That was when he left and then flew back; so the man was so desperate to be Vice President because you didn’t get it; you now started a southern agenda” I don’t believe in such unprincipled, zero integrity character like Nyesom
“Wike was the one who brought Ayu, he was the one who sponsored Ayu and that was why Wike made all the governors to endorse Ayu and that was why there was no election in the national chairman’s office during the convention, Ayu was unopposed”
“you are the one that brought Ayu so when did you now realize that Ayu is a northerner but he was doing that, that time to satisfy his own selfish ambition of becoming the Presidential candidate from the south, so he doesn’t want the chairmanship at that time to go to the south so that it will not affect his ambition of becoming president from the south.
“He pushed the chairmanship to the north and thinking that he will be able to bribe Ayu to choose him as the presidential candidate. When Ayu refused to do the wrong thing then Ayu became an enemy”
Governor Wike recently in an interview with Channels also attacked the ambition of Melaye to contest on the platform of the PDP in the Kogi State gubernatorial election saying Dino will be good in drama and not for governance.
