I will fight for democracy inside PDP – Wike

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has reiterated his stand not to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), despite the crisis that is threatening to consume the party.

Wike said he and his loyalists in Rivers State will not leave the PDP but remain to continue the fight for internal democracy.

According to the governor, retreating from a fight is a sign of weakness.

He spoke Thursday during a meeting with stakeholders of the party across the 319 wards of the state, at the Banquet Hall of the Government House in Port Harcourt.

The meeting was to brief the party leaders on the recent happenings in the party and intimate them of the plan by the Governor to hold a media chat tomorrow at 10 am to speak on the state of the PDP in the country.

Wike said the planned media chat is to publish his side of the story, which he maintained is the truth, and expose the ill characters of some persons who pride themselves as national leaders.

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He said after the chat, it will be left for Nigerians to decide if such people are still worthy of the ovation they are accorded, wondering why the PDP, which is promising to unify Nigeria, cannot unite the party.

The governor vowed that despite the internal crisis at the national level and a pocket of antagonism by some ungrateful PDP members in Rivers State, the party will retain all elective positions in the state.

The PDP is currently occupying all three senatorial seats, 13 House of Representatives positions, 32 state House of Assembly seats, 23 Council chairmanship and 319 councillorship positions.

Wike, a former minister, boasted of being well ahead of his detractors, saying he gets wind of every plan before it is executed.

He also warned party members in the state against acting as moles because there will be no loopholes in the strategy that will be adopted by the party in the state for the 2023 elections.